"Some kind of hostel for peaceniks"? The phraseology sounds like it is straight out of 1968, OG!! :D But I see what you mean. Jesus, you'd think we were stuck in Da Nang all over again for crying out loud.
One question -- you seem to understand these people and their buttons, a bit better than I do. So tell me what the word "liberal" in the expression "liberal dirtbags" in the posts under the story. I genuinely get puzzled by what it means to those who use it as a derogatory term. The inherent semantics of the word are about tolerance, and the granting of freedom to others. What definition are these people using?