By Mar 03,2009

How to trivialize everything

Food magazines are scaling back the recipes they’re recommending to more manageable budgets, reports the New York Times, in view of, you know, the excruciating disembowelment of the economy: After...

By Mar 02,2009

Mmmmm, warm cockles…

My black elitist heart positively lights up at the prospect of the marginalization of vulgar populism in the Republican party. Frum on Limbaugh: A man who is aggressive and bombastic,...

By Mar 02,2009

Steele vs. Limbaugh

NPR calls the Steele-Limbaugh tiff a battle for the future of the Republican party . In which case, I’m reminded of Henry Kissinger’s line on the Iran-Iraq war: Too bad...