AS USUAL, ANDREW SULLIVAN ROCKS If you didn't already go to andrewsullivan.com this morning, you should. In fact, you should look at him first thing every morning, long before coming here, because he's so damn good. Today, he's got the following awesome quote from, of all people, the Unabomber, which I only post here for my own future reference:

15. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist's real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.