Rage Monkeys Trashing The Serengeti Plains Of The Internet?

No, actually it works out pretty well - thanks for asking (Peggy Noonan via Yglesias):

On the Internet, you read the fierce posts of political and ideological writers and wonder, Why do so many young bloggers sound like hyenas laughing in the dark? Maybe it’s because there’s no old hand at the next desk to turn and say, “Son, being an enraged, profane, unmoderated, unmediated, hit-loving, trash-talking rage monkey is no way to go through life.”