All this brouhaha is remarkable—Charles is far from the first major league blogger to leave the right-o-sphere. John Cole of Balloon Juice bailed years ago. I used to post there very occasionally, and was caught flat-footed when I went back after the sea change. And Stephen Sherman, the “Commissar” of The Politburo Diktat, who’s now retired from political blogging, also recoiled from the more extreme manifestations of the conservative movement. I don’t recall such an uproar about them, though.