Hey, Richard Cohen --

... anger [is] festering on the Democratic left.... I have seen this anger before -- back in the Vietnam War era....

The hatred is back. I know it's only words now appearing on my computer screen, but the words are so angry, so roiled with rage, that they are the functional equivalent of rocks once so furiously hurled during antiwar demonstrations....

-- any chance you'd be willing to write about a real lynch-mob mentality?

'Denver Post' Publishes Letter That Advocates Beheading Editors, Pundits

Did The Denver Post go too far in publishing a letter to the editor today that advocates the beheading of editors, commentators, and politicians who have criticized the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay?...

The letter was written, ironically, by a resident of Littleton, Colo., site of the bloody Columbine High School shootings in 1999....

"Why have those who have continually howled at our treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo met the recent kidnapping and sadistic and brutal murders of our two young soldiers with deafening silence?" the letter began. "Where is your outrage now?" It then stated that the U.S. "should" behead 100 prisoners in retaliation, as well as " editors, commentators, college professors and left-wing congressmen who would suddenly break their silence to come out in support of these enemy jihadists. We need to stop listening to these sanctimonious hypocrites who apply the rules of war only to our side." ...

It'd be nice if you would, though I won't hold my breath.

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UPDATE: I'm way behind on my cultural references. Until now I've avoided reading this Lee Siegel "blogofascism" blather:

I am overwhelmed by the intolerance and rage in the blogosphere. Conscientiously criticize, in the form of a real argument, blogospheric favorites like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and the response isn't similar criticism, done conscientiously and in the form of an argument, but insults, personal attacks, and even threats. This truly is the stuff of thuggery and fascism.....

And on and on. But our friend from Littleton, for all we know, doesn't even own a computer. Lee Siegel, your thoughts?