Apparently, James Lileks has also been exposed to the LeCarre Brain Virus, which causes you to lose time and sleep debunking absurd statements. Quoth he:

This is not going well. Consciousness, I mean. I woke with that profound exhaustion that signals a grim day ahead. I can't wake up. My stupid fault for staying up stupidly late working on that stupid John Le Stupide piece. It?s everyone else?s fault for saying stupid things. Everyone is stupid but me.

In response to LeCarre's jibes about McCarthyism and the "compliant" U.S. media, he writes:

I have a newspaper column in a quasi-major metropolitan daily. I could, if I wished, spend the next year railing against the Bush administration, three times a week. Nothing would happen to me. Nothing. My editors would not complain.The publisher wouldn't take me aside. The guvmint would not come calling. It would never occur to me that I'd suffer any professional repercussions from changing my happy-fun column into a 24-7-365 anti-war diatribe - and if you think I'm mistaken, trust me on this: you have no idea what you're talking about.