SUSAN SONTAG MAY HAVE A CLUE, but the shrinking center of sure-enough idiotarianism holds, as this dumb cartoon by Ted Rall makes clear. (Via Geitner Simmons — what, you think I look at Rall’s cartoons on my own initiative? I didn’t like ’em even before 9/11).

UPDATE: A reader says that this is enough to refute all those who say dissent is being crushed. Nice to know Rall serves some purpose. Call him a “useful idiotarian.”