Nuttery Transcends Political Affiliation

Budiansky writes a killer blog lede:

In the geography of politics, there is a strange and shadowy place far, far down the narrowing alleys of the left, where one turns a final corner and is suddenly face to face with like-minded wanderers who arrived at the same spot from exactly the opposite direction, via equally tortuous passageways.

The rest of the post is just as good.