THIS WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE wonders why Noam Chomsky is ignored these days. Well, he’s not ignored in the Blogosphere! But one reason for not taking him seriously might be found in statements like this: “The positive side of [the Khmer Rouge] picture has been virtually edited out of the picture.”

Chomsky’s even out of favor with hard-core leftists, one of whom says: “He’s become a phase that people on the left should go through when they are young.” Yes, right after teething, and right before toilet training.

It’s not a bad article, particularly its references to the “elastic math” Chomsky uses to claim that 9/11 wasn’t as bad as Clinton’s bombing of the Sudanese pharmaceutical factory.