Congratulations to John Schwenkler. I find few things more satisfying than to be attacked by the likes of P.J. Gladnick at NewsBusters. Mr. Gladnick goes so far off the deep end in his first sentence, there is little need to read further. “There has been a trend in recent years for liberals to try to rebrand themselves as conservatives.” Yeah, people are standing in line to appropriate the cachet of Dick Cheney and Hugh Hewitt.

I also note that Gladnick takes umbrage at Schwenkler (and Alice Waters) for being concerned about “the crass materialism of popular culture.” I wonder if P.J. has heard that recent liberal speaker making similar complaints about materialism, stating “In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.” Darned Pope–probably prefers bean sprouts to fried chicken.