On MSNBC's Scarborough Country recently, the conservative Iraq war supporter turned war critic Joe Scarborough graciously told me he thinks Salon hasn't taken enough credit for being one of the few institutions that was right about the Iraq war from the beginning. I would love to pop champagne corks...

The editors of the Huffington Post have offered me space to reply to Caitlin Flanagan's latest fantasy, published in Time magazine, that Barbara Ehrenreich and I are trying to drive her out of the Democratic Party because we "can't stand" her lifestyle choices.

Let's get a few things straight....