I've embargoed myself from most political web stuff for the last week or so. Mostly on account of not wanting to become even more of an angry ranting misanthrope. But there's a gem of a post by Matt Yglesias that's well worth checking out. He's working over the most recent stupidity (at least I think it's the most recent; it's hard to keep up sometimes) by Pat Buchanan. You know, the one where Buchanan argues that Hitler didn't really want to go to war and WWII was all England's fault. A question occurs: if Hitler's just a misunderstood statesman then what does that do to all those "ZOMG! Obama is so bad he's just like teh Hitler" ranters?
Anyway, the post is cracking and even the comments are worth reading (which is a pretty rare thing for the internets) with a combo of history geeks arguing and hair-splitting, a few wingy nutbags rolling in to defend Pat and/or Adolf, and lots of snark. Including this, the funniest damn thing I've read in a while:
"Pat Buchanan is a less entertaining Franz Liebkind"

Mel Brooks FTW