MAGICAL THINKING is "reality-based." On the Left's reaction to the Tucson shootings: "The grand lie is the left/media professing to care remotely about the 'tone of political discourse' while spending four days doing everything it could to make it worse. Instant politicization of a massacre, smear after smear about who’s to blame, total amnesia about their own chill attitude towards the vicious demonization of Bush and his circle for years, and every bit of it surreally accompanied by hand-wringing about improving 'the dialogue'.”