Kathryn, loved your column on Obama, concepts of citizenship, rage, etc. Hit the spot, as we say when having a lemonade after hot, sweaty golf (or whatever).

One word about this “rage”: There is indeed rage on the right, some of it justifiable. (“Righteous indignation”?) And as I say in Impromptus – and the new NR — isn’t it interesting that you never read about “left-wing rage”? You always read about “right-wing rage.” Could be that the second phrase is simply catchier — alliterative. Or it could be that some people simply can’t conceive of left-wing rage: ’cause rage is bad (as is “right-wing”).

Orwell said that there was never “rabid” anti-Nazism or anti-fascism — only rabid anti-Communism.

And isn’t it interesting that, when you read about “angry white males,” they’re always talking about conservatives — never, say, Keith Olbermann? I note in my column one of my favorite cartoons of all time. It was in The New Yorker. Showed a smiling, slightly dopey man — and said (something like), “Carl was an angry white male until he discovered his pants were two sizes too small.”

Word.