Author: David Donadio
By David Donadio • Oct 23,2008

The one you've been waiting for

Billy Joel has endorsed Barack Obama or, as New York Magazine puts it, self-popped his cherry for Obama. To all of you who’ve been on the fence about this one,...

By David Donadio • Oct 22,2008

Robert Samuelson, how do I love thee?

Thank you. Quoth Samuelson: To: Voters Under 35 Subject: Your Future Recommendation: Get Angry You’re being played for chumps. Barack Obama and John McCain want your votes, but they’re ignoring...

By David Donadio • Oct 22,2008

Blaming the powerless

Jacob Weisberg has an amusingly nasty hatchet job in Slate heralding the latest financial crisis and ensuing federal bailout as the death of libertarianism. His last lines are particularly funny...

By David Donadio • Oct 16,2008

Missing something?

I love how the Washington Post reports a 5.8% increase in Social Security benefits with no mention — not a one, in the whole article — about how much it’ll...

By David Donadio • Oct 16,2008

Burying the lede

Also, does anyone else have the sense that the Post is burying the lede here? Every day we hear another story about the federal government spending another several billion dollars....