Author: AF Editors

By Jan 16,2009

Blow, blow, thou winter wind

Right now in Chicago with its subzero temperatures, you would think we were living through a nuclear winter to hear the media tell it. How refreshing to read this paean...

By Jan 16,2009

Addendum

I suspect I was unnecessarily glib in promoting the Frum-Atallah Bloggingheads: it really is quite good. Frum is very effective in drawing out Atallah’s ideas for a U.S.-led conciliation process,...

By Jan 15,2009

Motown

Do you listen to Motown on a daily basis? If not, why not? If so, here’s your daily dose: And might I recommend that instead of dressing up like a...

By Jan 15,2009

How dare they?

I see that Mr. Yglesias is outraged that some idiot DC suburbanites wouldn’t want a light rail importing “riffraff” into their neighborhoods. While I don’t know enough as to the...

By Jan 15,2009

Ahh, Baltimore…

I’m a bit late on this one, but living in a city that right now defines large-scale political corruption in the national imagination (Chicago), I felt a twinge of nostalgia...