How is it possible to find a crowd that large — I mean, even assuming camera-placement-trickery, there’s at least five people, not counting Mr. Burns — a crowd that large or indeed any crowd of any size that is unanimously, raucously, opposed to nuclear safety?

The “Drill, baby, drill!” thing didn’t make any sense as policy, but you could sort of see what kind of Freudian demons they were working out; but what’s going on here?

They’re just actively rooting for the death of the world now, aren’t they?

What could be more entertaining than watching right-wingers freak out about Krugman’s Nobel? Nothing, that’s what. 

No, wait: reading about respected Fox News commentator Anthony Martin-Trigona and his long campaign against the Bankruptcy Jews is possibly more amusing — in a sick way — like a funny nightmare, or an ether binge hallucination scrawled on your walls by Ralph Steadman in human blood and shit. 

Also entertaining: Weekly Standard hack Stephen Hayes pushing back against stories about the horrible vicious lynch-mob atmosphere of recent McCain/Palin rallies by arguing that ”The Angry Left” is even worse, an argument which opens and pretty nearly concludes with the following anecdote:

 This morning at a McCain rally here, a bearded young man in the crowd responded to a McCain critique of Barack Obama by shouting: “You’re a liar John!” He then hoisted a young woman with an antiwar poster onto his shoulders and began yelling antiwar gibberish as McCain tried to continue his speech. When McCain supporters ripped up the woman’s sign, she unfolded another one and the spectacle continued.

Can you believe it? An antiwar protestor who wouldn’t run away, even after some public spirited fellows ripped her sign out of her hands and smashed it up in front of her? Truly the Left is out of control.

I didn’t actually watch the debate, I just listened to it as a vague disorientating hum and drone, a kind of unpleasant political muzak. But I did see CNN’s post-debate analysis, which opened with CNN political analyst John King holding up his iPhone, as a witchdoctor or haruspex might brandish the signifying gizzard of an owl, and announcing that you could tell Palin did well because Republican party operatives had been emailing him to tell him that Palin did well.

I suppose that’s about the level of sophisticated analysis the spectacle deserves. How much do you think John King gets paid, though?