Jon, this story is an absolute scream. No doubt many in the mainstream media will fail to see the delicious irony in the Charlotte Observer’s request. To be fair, however, sometimes the ironic roles are reversed and it’s the writer who gets the last laugh. I can’t tell you how hard I laughed at the e-mail my husband received a few months ago from a diversity-loving peacenik in Chapel Hill, in response to Rick’s column in the Raleigh News & Observer, which made the case that the U.S.-led coalition is winning in Iraq. At the end of Mr. Peacenik’s novel about the sweetness and light that emanates from the anti-war, we-love-everybody Left in Chapel Hill, he told Rick he should go back where he came from because Chapel Hill has seen “his kind” before and doesn’t want it.