Eating their young.

It must be a proud thing to be a leftist. You are always on the side of tolerance and charity. So it means nothing to call a fellow liberal a "brownshirt" when he suggests why other leftists are out of touch with mainstream society. I picked up this example through Dodd who vouches that the blogger, Andrew Hagen is a principled, courteous liberal. I particularly liked this bit of appalling invective:

Tbogg's outed you dumbass. You might as well quit lying. Quote "I hold left-wing views. As an American, I'm a political independent who leans toward the Democratic Party and away from the Green Party." Please don't lean toward the Democratic party. We don't want your worthless, lying ass. Go back and join your freeper friends.
P.S. Time to get off the Oxycotin dittohead now that they got your dealer Limbaugh in a padded cell where he belongs.

Yah, that says tolerance and love.

Then, scooting through Fresno blogger The Accidental Jedi, I stumbled upon this post on the disgusting trashing of Randite blogger by commenters at Atrios. Silber, apparently, is financially suffering from the transit strike in L.A. and may suspend blogging. This led to a round of comments celebrating the joy of seeing someone else's misery at Atrios. Check out this pearl:

Obviously, by his own philosophy, he does not deserve to live. Law of the jungle. Dog eat dog. Kill or be killed.

Amazing how it takes personal experience for so many of these types to realize how wrong that philosophy can be.

Feel the love?

Finally, Bear Flagger Citizen Smash used his own experience as an Iraq-War veteran to disembowl a tendentious cartoon by Tom Tomorrow which attempted to paint supporters of the war in Iraq as hypocrites and cowards. Before you could say "Beavis and Butthead," Citizen Smash was flooded with disgusting, and often mis-spelled, Atrios-style comments. (What is it about the Left and the exclusive use of the lower case anyway? Do they think they are e.e. cummings?) This one is choice:

Tom skewered you fat-ass big-mouthed brownshirts to a tee. No wonder you're in such a tizzy.

Don't like it? Enlist and prove him wrong.

Now go back to eating the Cheetohs...

After all, it's not a real debate until someone invokes the brownshirts.

These people don't need political power. They need a course in anger management.