In response to my USA Today column earlier this week:

Jonah,
I know you were joking, but did you have to pretend I called the GOP the “party of Mordor” in your USA Today column? I’ve said a number of things in private that I expect to haunt me, Jacob Marley-style, for a long time, but I have to make sure I’m not accused of hurling insults I never actually came up with. I have never, for example, blamed the Bush administration for re-naming the Sci Fi channel “SyFy,” or claimed that the World Cup refs who disallowed American goals were students of Leo Strauss. Nor have I accused Sarah Palin of writing the final draft of the “Jonah Hex” script. Let’s just get all of that straight.
excelsior,