The NYT's David Brooks -- whose column is scheduled to take up life behind a subscription wall in September -- examines the torrent of Internet bile that has spewed forth in response to Newsweek's Koran-flush blunder, and observes, "Maybe it won't be so bad being cut off from the blogosphere."

Hard to argue with that.

POSTSCRIPT: Yes, Brooks tries a bit too hard to make his piece an even-handed indictment of both right and left, when, clearly, his beef is primarily with the former. (Let's see, now. On one side, Brooks condemns the behavior of the Bush administration, large chunks of the conservative commentariat, and virtually the entire right side of Blogdom; on the other, he wags his finger at . . . The Nation. Oh, and some number of unidentified but scary-sounding "leftish web sites." Equipoise, indeed.) Still, it's worth a read.