I had never, before today, heard of Freddie Deboer. I have also read very little of Yglesias, so I don't know how representative his recent Slate column is. I do know that in the future I will be much more likely to go looking for Deboer's latest than Yglesias'.

Now, I've been blogging for half a decade, and I've interacted with a lot of people online, and had many perfectly lovely conversations with some of them. Yet I maintain a profound lack of understanding and an inability to predict how people will react. Try as I might, I can't comprehend the human mind that says, "you know, Matt Yglesias justified the conditions that killed hundreds of people through explicit reference to their national difference. But the guys at Mr. Destructo were mean to an affluent, connected guy who lives a life of ease in the halls of power in Washington DC. That's the real crime."                                                                          

http://lhote.blogspot.com/2013/04/bad-behavior.html

Ditto regards future reading of Et Tu, Mr. Destructo?, at least for a while.

http://www.mrdestructo.com/search/label/Destructo%20Salon