What do g_d, Michelle Malkin, Mr. Blackwell, Hillary Clinton, and y_u have in common? Ordinarily, I'd be skeptical of any list of"The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2005." There are so many candidates and the temptation of political agendizing is so obvious. But The Beast,"Dysfunctions: 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2005," Ocnus.net, 18 January 2006, does a fairly even-handed and wickedly funny job of naming names. Thanks to Alfredo Perez at Political Theory Daily Review for the tip.

Congratulations to Mark Grimsley! His Blog Them Out of the Stone Age has been nominated for Best New Blog and Most Deserving of Wider Recognition in the Koufax Awards, 2005. Voting has not yet begun.

Adam Kotsko - 2/4/2006

I think this is a clear case of the facts being biased against right-wingers. That is, the only way to be even-handed is precisely to be far more biased against right-wingers.

I hope that next year he lists every single Democrat who voted to end debate on Alito, or at least all those who voted for him.

Jonathan Dresner - 2/4/2006

Well, if the Divine were a real liberal, most of the disasters would hit high-income areas, wouldn't they? That's the indictment: not nice enough.

Jesse Jackson about the only real exception, on a list very deep in right-wing figures.

Ralph E. Luker - 2/4/2006

Jesse Jackson? Not liberal enough? Y_u and g_d? Not liberal enough?

Jonathan Dresner - 2/4/2006

I like the list, but I really wouldn't call it "evenhanded." They do a nice job taking on cultural as well as political figures, to be sure, and some traditional "liberals" do come in for well-deserved skewering, but mostly for not being liberal enough.