Posted 5:23 PM by Gene

Con-SER-va-tives have been chattering about The Internet's Inventor winning the Dynamite Good Intentions Award. We wouldn't be surprised; the knee jerks of that Norwegian coterie have not missed a chance to poke a big green thumb in our faces. Whether it's good for the surviving rep of a man who made war far deadlier is an open question. Certainly if Doris Lessing's reaction can be believed they've lost their cachet, having declined into the rote honoring of Bunsen Honeydews and PC Buttinskys. We're not even sure (as the con-SER-va-tive CW seems to go) that it would help Web win the White House; he'd expose again all the flaws that cost him 2000: the condescending SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHS, the whiny impatience, the tendency to bloggerize his enemies (i.e., to make them the source of all EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL). Given how both Web and Hill have sizable flaws in equal measure we suspect for Democrats the PC virtues of electing the first woman president will far overshadow the need to feel sorry for someone.

One thing's clear: the news-hack campaigning would begin in EARNEST -- almost as earnest as The Internet's Inventor.

P. S. The organizers of this Dynamite memorial are making noises Mr. Dynamite's gilt guilt might finance a CLIMATE PRIZE, which would be the moral equivalent of Rigoberta Menchú and JIMMAH EVERY YEAR.

(Corrected at 5:45 p.m. to reflect the fact that it takes two separate organizations to honor Bunsen Honeydews and PC Buttinskys.)