A Corner reader writes me,

Congressman Elliot Engel is a sworn enemy of American’s Second Amendment rights. If you think he is “the excellent New York Democrat”, you are another phony baloney, plastic banana National Review so called “conservative”.
Seems you’ve got a few “blind spots” yourself, you jackass.

Don’t you love it when America sings? (Me, I’m not so sure, sometimes.) Eliot Engel is an exceptional Democrat, stalwart on human rights, wherever they are abused: in Cuba, in Syria, in the Balkans — anywhere. He is no conservative, of course. But he is decent, and willing to tick off members of his own party. I find Democrats such as Engel scarce as hen’s teeth — scarcer still, now that Tom Lantos is gone.

By the way: “plastic banana”? As in, “Is that a plastic banana in your pocket, or are you just another so-called conservative” (or something)?