I like listening to Hugh Hewitt in the third hour. He seems to get whimsical and slightly loopy, making up lies about Lileks and anybody else he knows he can rib, or whom he wants to make fun of. Politics is an important subject, but we all need a little levity about it. Otherwise, we become like Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter or Michael Savage. Let the Democrats and the mainstream media lose all rationality as they seem to be doing now. Besides ridicule is an extremely effective rhetorical device, as anyone who reads Lileks or O'Rourke knows. Sarcasm achieved its acme in the twentieth century, I think. My older brother is a master, but he's not a writer.