david horowitz is a bit of a bitter crank, but he always at least seemed kind of bright. but his "guide to the left" is incomprehensible. it includes zarqawi, khomeini, khalid shaik mohammed, mohammed atta, zacarias moussaoui, along with, you know, rob reiner, danny glover, susan sarandon. it must not be easy to be driven by extreme ideological commitments into a realm completely detached from reality. um: those folks are religious fundamentalists. they are reactionaries. they are far more similar to john ashcroft than rob reiner. it's like i put up a rogue's gathering of the american right and included not only, say, john gotti, but also the weather underground and huey newton. but perhaps horowitz is more to be pitied than censured: things have been so hard since the lobotomy.