This stuff is past its expiration date …

… The Will to Outrage - Taki's Magazine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The reaction to the cartoon … was indicative of what one might call the will to outrage. This will precedes any object to which it might attach, and many people wait as if in ambush for something to feel angry about, pouncing on it with leopard-like joy (the leopard, so I was told in Africa, is particularly dangerous, for it kills for pleasure and not only for food).