At America's blog, Michael Sean Winters identifies the "Kooks on the Left" who mirror those on the right. And they are...Maommar Qaddafi of Libya and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran!Let's give them both a round of applause--and maybe a seat at the Commonweal Conversations dinner?MSW (I am generally a fan) also manages to weave in E.J. Dionne's column (E.J. is also a liberal, though he is rarely so loquacious as the aforementioned gents) on chintzy charities as well as Michael Moore on "Capitalism."So which one of these is not like the others?UPDATE: Michael Sean wrote me to ask for a "correction," saying I had made a serious mischaracterization of his views by implying that he had pinned Qaddafi and Ahmedinejad as liberals. (Winters said he does not comment on blogs and asked me to do so here.) I reiterated to him, and will again here, that my intent was more tongue-in-cheek. I thought his set-up did make it sound as though Q & A were part of the liberal "kookiness," and reading the rest shows he obviously intends that it is the UN that was "a leftie fantasy," as he put it in his email to me. I saw the reference above more as an entry point to his entire post about an equivalency with right-wing kookiness--an analogy with which I disagreed, and still do. Which does not detract from what I consider his many fine writings. For what that is all worth.