. . . as Hillary supporters who don’t like the fact that 2 + 2 = 4 threaten to bolt the Democratic Party unless it declares that, for this election year only, 2 + 2 = 5.

. . . as a conservative talk-show host who learned to say “Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser” in the same way a parrot learns to say “Polly wants a cracker” gets destroyed by Chris Matthews, who isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed himself. (The video is everywhere this morning, but if you want, you can see it here, along with Monty Python’s 16-second version of the same thing, a brilliant choice by John Cole of Balloon Juice.)

And here’s the Quote of the Day from Roy at Alicublog, responding to a conservative blogger’s suggestion that a McCain defeat in November would represent a reality much more complex than a mere turn away from conservatism: “Yeah, like ‘The American people actually wanted to either strangle or eviscerate (slowly, in either case) every Republican they could catch, but democracy only afforded the less satisfactory alternative of voting.’”

Well, democracy’s not perfect.