http://www.ginandtacos.com/2011/11/07/any-son-of-a-bitch/
There's more logic in those few paragraphs than in anything uttered by all the combined GOP candidates for president in all the combined speeches, debates and position papers issued in the past year.
UPDATE: This is good, too, from the always excellent Tom Junod, excerpt:
I live in the suburbs of Atlanta, and I can tell you that the kind of rhetoric that mistakes everyday annoyances for eternal infamies — that offers a well-armed militia as the answer to a misguided toll lane — is the non-point source pollution of the Republican South: It's in the water, and now it's turned up at the end of my driveway on Thursday afternoons. But as our redoubtable Charles Pierce pointed out in this essay a few months ago, the mainstreaming of extremist rhetoric does not make extremist rhetoric more mainstream; it just makes the mainstream more extremist. It makes the ongoing radicalization of white people not just a rural story but more and more a suburban one, and it makes it entirely possible to look at the alleged Waffle House plotters as both their families and their federal antagonists see them: as a bunch of friendly, neighborly codgers who were harmless but dreamed of harm, and loved their country so much they wanted to see large numbers of their countrymen dead.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/georgia-militia-plot-6546579#ixzz1d1sLV9Ln
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