I've just spent a harrowing hour over there. You may be right about the diary. But, to judge by a whole heap of comments, no careful framing would have stopped the deluge.

Far too many Americans left of "center" (wherever that may be) are simply incapable of imagining that any other set of ideas of any interest or value might exist beyond the ones they've been formatted by in an isolated, self-referring -- yet world-powerful -- culture.