A bunch of tea party types have written in to complain about my characterization, in a column this past weekend, of Rep. John Lewis being verbally assaulted last spring. The general jist here is that i'm lazy and liberal and just repeating the same old lies. I'm not actually going to post any of those notes, because so far none of them pass the basic threshold of civility. But anyone who's checked this site from time to time knows that I prefer to address complaints rather than ignore them...