Perhaps the New York Times will run it…
If your image of a philanthropist is a stout, gray geezer, then meet Talia Leman, an eighth grader in Iowa who loves soccer and swimming, and whose favorite subject is science. I’m supporting her for president in 2044.
It seems Nicholas D. Kristof is taking a break from chatting [...]

Or so CCTV’s Beijing headquarters is called by the locals. I guess CCTV should consider themselves lucky it wasn’t called “Depends.” (h/t China Blog)

As pleased as I am about Obama’s election, I am forced to confront what it means for the next four years of Roger Cohen columns. Roger Cohen writing under an Obama presidency is like Nicholas Cage hitting the liquor store in Leaving Las Vegas.
Less than 48 hours since the election and already he drops a [...]

Watching a bizarrely subdued Chris Matthews in the above clip is like reading the tea leaves on what I fear* the next four years of MSM coverage are going to be like. Doctor Matthews says he sees it as his job to make Obama’s presidency work because, in his diagnosis, “this country needs a successful [...]

I think I speak for everyone when I ask: will Ralph Nader please just go away?

There are times when the good folks at the American Conservative act as useful reminders to heed the wisdom contained in Washington’s farewell address:
The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of [...]

Roger Cohen is to the English language what Thomas Kinkade is to art or Kenny G is to jazz. Here’s the proof:
So it is important to step back, from the last machinations of this endless campaign, and think again about what America is.
It is renewal, the place where impossible stories get written.
And
He is the providential [...]

…is “to comfort the winsome and afflict the uncharismatic“, notes James Taranto after quoting some truly hagiographic coverage by the media.

Donadio’s fine post on the madness of Mr. Krauthammer put me in mind of the wonderful poem by Constantine Cavafy, “Waiting for the Barbarians”:
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
The barbarians are due here today.
Why isn’t anything happening in the senate?
Why do the senators sit there without legislating?
Because the barbarians are coming today.
What [...]

Over at the new, ugly Atlantic Monthly, the usually temperate Megan McCardle unloads on Matt Taibbi, and the results are kind of…awesome. I’m a sucker for those moments when mild-mannered writers finally decide to stick the knife in. It’s like the scene at the end of Last of the Mohicans, when the Russell Means character, [...]

Ordinarily, the experience of reading Leon Wieseltier’s turgid prose is akin to masturbating in warm bathwater. Today, however, I came upon a surprisingly on-the-nose expression of his political preferences, which included this jaw-dropping (for me) line:
I want universal health care and I want an interventionist foreign policy.
Stunning! It’s so rare that I see everything I [...]

For years, skeptics have claimed that the Apollo moon landing was staged. NASA has nothing on the PRC’s government-controlled Xinhua news agency, however. Granted, this isn’t exactly Stalin airbrushing Trotsky out of old photos, but it’s a delightful bit of propaganda, nonetheless.
My favorite part is the fabricated dialogue between the astronauts. Herewith, an excerpt:
KIRK: Approach [...]

There’s an interesting story up over at Slate; it’s a reprint of a discussion about the photographer Jill Greenberg and the nature of photography in general. After discussing the illegality of child pornography, the author notes that
This is as it should be, for many reasons; but one of them is simply that photography is, in [...]

I’m sorry, but of the many compelling (or intriguing, or plausible) arguments for why African-Americans should have their own search engine, this is not one of them:
[...] a black person searching for “whitney,” for instance, probably wouldn’t be looking for the Whitney Museum of Art, which comes up first on Google, or Whitney Bank, which comes [...]

Apparently, Keith Olbermann has gone (more) insane, and is threatening to quit MSNBC if he doesn’t become the new anchor at MSNBC. According to the always-reliable Page Six:
Meanwhile, Matthews’ MSNBC cable cohort Olbermann, who was also at the memorial, is “threatening to quit if he isn’t installed as Russert’s replacement,” another insider said. “I know, [...]

Unaware of my existence and identity as Thomas Frank appears to be, how could he have known, before clicking SEND on his silly piece in today’s Wall Street Journal, that here I sat, all along, clickyfingers at the ready, secretly able to laugh him down the way he deserves?
He couldn’t. So in the sense that [...]

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Rest assured I will leave the sports blogging around here to the experts, but take a look anyway at the claim by Yahoo! Sports’ Jeff Passan that, um, “Weak attendance could be a National emergency” (get it)? If the new stadium fails, a real DC debacle could ensue. I’m just not sure that stadium failure [...]