CIVILITY IS STILL DEAD: Nice catch by James Taranto in his latest Best of the Web column:

• “[Sarah] Palin’s map is of a similar vein, though it is more personal. The markers on the map, showing the location of the congressional districts, look like the crosshairs of a rifle sight, and it was accompanied by a list of names. . . . It’s silly for her aides to claim she did not intend these to be gunsights.”–“fact check,” Washington Post website, Jan. 11, 2011
• “Paul Ryan in the Crosshairs”–headline, Washington Post website, Oct. 3, 2012

Why is the Washington Post being so racist?