By Dec 07,2009

What was Obama doing for three months?

If you don’t read Shadow Government, you should. It’s a blog written by a lot of very smart people who held significant positions in the Bush administration. (No, that isn’t...

By Dec 07,2009

Afghanistan: A GOP twofer?

David Obey, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee has introduced a war tax bill. “As presidential historian Robert Dallek reminds us, ‘war kills off great reform movements’,” Obey said, noting...

By Dec 07,2009

WAFCA winners

The Washington Area Film Critics Association (of which I am a member) released it’s best-of list this morning, and I wanted to pass them along to you guys. My write...

By Dec 04,2009

Mel Brooks

I spent much of the last week crafting a profile about the one-and-only Mel Brooks, parodist extraordinaire. One of the things I came to appreciate is his absurd longevity: Working...

By Dec 03,2009

All Camped Out

“Glee,” Fox’s hot new musical comedy, is set in a small town in western Ohio, and that is the source of everyone’s woes. Viewers should, of course, know better than...