THE BLOGOSPHERE GETS FEISTY: It’s Jonah Goldberg vs. Juan Cole, with Justin Katz chiming in.

Meanwhile, contradictions are noted in other remarks. Moore, Churchill, and Chomsky don’t represent the Left — even when it agrees with them most of the time!

UPDATE: Jon Henke emails to suggest that it’s odd to see Max Sawicky complaining about guilt-by-association, when Sawicky himself ran a contest to associate me with the most objectionable thing said by anyone on my blogroll.

Henke observes: “I guess he had a change of heart.” I guess he did. Funny, though — you shouldn’t have to scroll past Alterman’s name before figuring out that a place on my blogroll isn’t necessarily an endorsement, anyway.

ANOTHER UPDATE: David Bernstein sends this link as his contribution to the Cole-fest.

MORE: A reader suggests that Sawicky has succumbed to obsession. Heh. Wouldn’t be the first time.

STILL MORE: From someone who pays a lot more attention to Sawicky than I do.

MORE STILL: The Belmont Club on the Cole/Goldberg fracas: “But it was the declining vigor of Marxist thought coupled with new conservative ideas that poured the most fuel on the flames. Discourse between Left and Right could only remain civil for so long as Conservatives remained meek or had no counter-pulpit. . . . What has changed is that, with the decline of the MSM, there is nothing which prevents incivility from becoming a two-way street. And I’m not sure either the Left or the total system can contain the stress.”