[randita]

Mr. Peretz said: "We haven’t had any trouble differentiating ourselves from them in decades. The Nation is edited for aging ex-communists on the West Side. On the Upper West Side."

This column is worthy, if only for this sentence near the end.

[WL-law]

Mr. Peretz said: "We haven’t had any trouble differentiating ourselves from them in decades. The Nation is edited for aging ex-communists on the West Side. On the Upper West Side."

Peretz, like Beinert, is a product of Cambridge Massachusetts -- that's "the people's republic" of Cambridge.

But I guess there are some naunced differences between Upper West Side Red Diaper babies and Ivory Tower lefties. The Lefties don't like being perceived as predictable -- whereas when Van Houval screws up her mouth and makes that hateful face on Chris Matthews et al before she starts to speak, you don;t even have to listen to the words -- you know EXACTLY what she is going to say.

[Liz]

I thought the Al thing was a goody.