Nice to see that James Wolcott apparently read Fishbowl's (we'd like to think somewhat more civil) posting three weeks ago. Now, he's taking all his ammo to poor Kurt Andersen, who suggested in New York Mag that Liberal Guilt has it even worse now that Bush allegedly is cleaning up in Iraq. We'll leave the judgment of that theory up to you, Dear Reader, but here it is.

Score: Wolcott ahead by one point, but we're taking it back because he uses Matt Taibbi as his go-between instead of wielding the pen himself. So the score is even, Fishbowl figures. Until Kurt weighs in, that is, most likely with more finely-tuned adverbs than any of us will be able properly to decipher without a dictionary. Stay tuned!