"I quoted a statement which I have heard many times in my life."

Isn't that on the big list of don'ts for southerners hoping to enter national politics?

...as Tom Tomorrow acknowledges on his website.

But what gets me is how the wingnuts never experience overload, fatigue, ennui, nausea, or even a simple desire to get on with their lives.

They're the Energizer bunnies of politics. What gives? The far right manages to be sore losers one day sore winners the next, as the situation requires. When there's a Democrat in the White House they cry fraud, and when there is a Republican, they cry treason when anyone dares to complain about it. Right now, things are impossibly good for the right: given a Democratic president and legislative supermajorities, almost nothing has really changed in any significant way.

To say they've lost their minds suggests they weren't nuts to begin with, but their sheer strenuousness in making up things to complain about is the real secret to their success, and probably something we liberals would do well to emulate.

"Those who are saying that sound exactly -- and I mean exactly -- like Chris Matthews, on April 9, 2003, when he scolded Democrats"

I'd let this pass if Greenwald hadn't said "exactly", or maybe if he hadn't repeated the word.

The Nobel Peace prize is already slightly dubious given the recipients, so if some folks want to meet in Stockholm and declare that Obama rocks their world, then let guy have his day. His response was appropriate and he sounds about as surprised as anyone. Where's the harm?

On the other hand, 4/9/2003 was a staged event in a war started on a lie. There was and continues to be plenty of harm. Saying "let the guy have his day" does not sound exactly, or even remotely similar, because the circumstances and significance are completely different.

Beck "You have to know that the technology exists."

OK, RFID exists and has for a long time. And Fox News readers may be familiar with the RFID tagging of books at their local public library (but who am I kidding?).

On the other hand, RFID that is small enough to inject secretly in a vaccination? It is implausible if not physically impossible. An antenna has to be close to a wavelength in size to be effective, and RF wavelengths are in the macroscopic range (cm to meters). I can't rule out what is ultimately possible, but I feel safe in saying that it would be quite a breakthrough to construct a functioning injectable radio antenna.

the phrase "lower Manhattan" had taken on a whole new meaning. Obama hasn't even started a major new war of his own, and his attempts at executive overreach are unoriginal to put it generously.

The heading "Hitler's diabolical backup plan!" gave away the whole joke. As soon as I read it--no I didn't guess the details like the frozen brain--but I knew that somehow Hitler's diabolical backup plan was going to involve Obama becoming president. And that's worth a chuckle, but I'm not sure that much is added by playing out the specifics in a comic strip.

But using your kids to make up for perceived deficits in your own childhood isn't what I'd call exemplary parenting.

But the part that really got me going was Benjamin's exhibits A, B, and C that his parents are wacko liberals.

Exhibit A: They voted for Carter twice and "probably" Dukakis. Whoa... that puts them in with the lunatic fringe of 45.6% of those who voted on election day 1988. Good thing he said "probably" or I'd really be scared. And what about Mondale (as it happens, the first presidential vote I ever cast)?

Exhibit B: Skinny dipping fits with being liberal, I guess, but it just shows his parents weren't anxiety ridden about everything.

Exhibit C: Didn't let him play football. I need some context here, like whether he wanted to play or was any good at it. I would have pretty serious reservations given the possibility of injury, but I wouldn't stop someone if it was their life's dream. It's a judgment call. Anyway, according to the Mark Benjamin school of parenting, there is still time for a do-over; just make sure your kid plays football whether he likes it or not.

"For years liberals have been telling us that all bad things in the world were the fault of old, white men, and the unrepresentative institutions they controlled."

Oh, really? Can you cite a single instance of this? Sure, in your overactive fantasy world there are probably liberals who think things like "Ouch! I stubbed my toe. It's all part of the white paternalistic conspiracy to keep women down." But if you want to make a persuasive argument, you could begin with some kind of shared context--i.e. reality--that might help others understand your point.

I'd really love to see that conservative cost-benefit analysis in favor of missile defense.

I'm not sure I'd even concede that anyone showed you can "shoot down a bullet with a bullet" as claimed. I agree that there is no theoretical reason it cannot be done, but at best what we've seen is a parlor trick involving highly controlled circumstances with one bullet screaming "Woo hoo! Look at me! I'm a bullet! It's 03:07:01.187234 GMT and my position and velocity is precisely ..."

That is a pretty far cry from justifying the expense of building a system that may or may not work against real missiles let alone answering whether the destabilizing effect of such a system is enough to counterbalance any benefit. (Or comparing it to the cost-benefit of on-going work in non-proliferation). It goes without saying that in comparison to Reagan's B-movie inspired vision of anti-nuke umbrella, today's missile defense is (speaking of laughable) a pretty weak argument that conservatives are pro-science.