Don't Go Into The Light

Does a profile on Maryscott O'Connor (pictured below) of the lefty blog My Left Wing.

It's a fascinating yet disturbing view into the rage-filled, spittle-infused, foul, and profane left side of the blogosphere. While the piece appears largely sympathetic, it is nonetheless frightening:

...she picks up the album about her father, where there's a letter from him to his wife, written three days before he died, that ends, "I love you and the baby more than I ever knew a person could love."

The baby.

He never knew her name, or that she was a girl, or that his wife weighed less on the day their daughter was born than when she was conceived. "Catatonic" is how O'Connor describes what her mother became for a while, and then the mother got better, and then the daughter got worse, and then the daughter got better by becoming angry rather than silent about a new war, so angry she began wishing her president would go to hell.

"In the angry life of Maryscott O'Connor, the rage begins as soon as she opens her eyes..."

The front door opens and in comes her 6-year-old son, Terry, home from school, who starts batting around a blue balloon at the other end of the living room, batting it closer to her, closer, closer. She searches through her iTunes library until she finds one of her favorite downloads -- not music, but a speech by a character named Howard Beale in the movie "Network." She presses "play" and turns up the volume. "I want you to get mad!" Beale shouts at one point. "I want you to get mad!" she shouts along, startling Terry. "What?" he says, backing away with his balloon.

Read the whole thing.

H/T Little Green Footballs

Update: Photo added.
Update 2: Kim Priestap at WizBang: "It's quite the irony, isn't it, how they allow the man they hate with every fiber of their bodies complete control over their lives."

Update 3: Captain Ed: "If I were a liberal blogger, I would cringe with embarrassment after reading this article."

Update 4: My friend Bob thinks the Post cherry-picked the worst of the left for the story. He's got a point that there are leftist blogs that don't spew vile. Unfortunately, the most popular ones do.

Update 5: Eventually someone else will post a "separated at birth" picture pair, so I may as well be first: