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If you want to see what's wrong with the left these days, look no farther than this Debra Dickerson column -- and Mikes Pace's posts in defense of it. This kind of P.C. "lifestyle" busybodyness isn't just annoying, it's a waste of energy. Dickerson's approach is hardly an original one. Our culture thrives on butting into everyone else's business these days, from celebrity-watch websites to rightwing neanderthals' gay-bashing to busybody lefties meddling in someone else's habits. Deliberately minding your own business -- an attitude of "to each his/her own" -- is a basic tenet of any truly civil, free society. People who won't mind their own business are usually insecure about something. Either their own lives are boring and they have to live vicariously through others, or they have a narrow, constipated view of life (no matter how healthily they may eat) and are afraid someone's going to get "out of line" with their limited take on the world. Enough, already.
