The politicization of mass murder found its perfect expression in one of those near-parodic pieces to which the more tortured self-loathing dweebs of the fin de civilisation West are prone. As the headline in Salon put it, “Let’s Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber Is a White American.” David Sirota is himself a white American, but he finds it less discomforting to his Princess Fluffy Bunny worldview to see his compatriots as knuckle-dragging nutjobs rather than confront all the apparent real-world contradictions of the diversity quilt. He had a lot of support for his general predisposition. “The thinking, as we have been reporting, is that this is a domestic extremist attack,” declared Dina Temple-Raston, NPR’s “counterterrorism correspondent.” “Officials are leaning that way largely because of the timing of the attack. April is a big month for anti-government and right-wing individuals. There’s the Columbine anniversary, there’s Hitler’s birthday, there’s the Oklahoma City bombing, the assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco.” http://www.nationalreview.com/article/346146/‘co-exist’-bombers

As I write, the Mounties are just wrapping up a briefing with “Muslim community leaders and imams” over a thwarted cross-border terrorism plot to blow up a passenger train between Toronto and New York City. All together now! “So today’s railroad bombers are Muslim: So?” http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/346319/todays-no-islam-see-here-update