The Malkies ...

My colleagues, Greg Robinson and Jonathan Dresner, who has been calling our attention to double-speak, will appreciate Andrew Sullivan's call for nominations for the Malkin Award. He cites as justification a sentence from Michelle Malkin's latest column:"Perhaps too much drug-addled '60s nostalgia has burnt out the bleeding-hearts pacifists' brain cells." Packed into a single sentence, says Sullivan, are"four cliche-ridden, playground insults." Nominees from left and right are eligible,"but the sentence must be entirely devised to insult; it should be completely devoid of originality; it must have at least two hoary, dead-as-a-Norwegian-parrot cliches; and it must assume that readers already agree with the writer. Arbitrary mean-spiritedness wins extra points."