The Far-Right vs. the Far-Middle

Let’s pretend for a minute I actually read the NYT instead of get tipped to its idiocy by other blogs.
I haven’t read any newspaper in years, and it is completely possible I’ve never read a dead-tree copy of the Times. I have, of course, read them online, but only when tipped by Drudge or someone else about a particularly asinine (that’s a high bar for the Slimes) story.
Ok, so here goes:
I was reading an interesting editorial about Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in the New York Times (reg required) when I was pulled up short by a couple of things.
