Probably the most telling (if only the second or third saddest) aspect of the AP’s eulogy for bearded bawd George Carlin is this one: The actor Ben Stiller called Carlin...
Like Daniel, I happily pondered Reihan’s Spectator prophesy of a yupster Return to the Blue Lagoon of Hippiedom. And the result of that pondering centered around the following two sentences:...
At Slate, Paul Collins asks if modern life has killed the semicolon: The semicolon has spent the last century as a fussbudget mark. Somerset Maugham and George Orwell disdained it;...
Kerry Howley has come back with an outstanding post on the culture/birthrates/tradition meme flying around the intertubes. I know it is outstanding because I agree completely with over 90% of...
Daniel thinks small-country regionalism is no laughing matter, whereas large-country republicanism may still be impossible to take seriously: In the end, the federal republic was consolidated because it came to...
Ross’s back and forth with Dan McCarthy and Daniel Larison (see also Matt Yglesias and MB Dougherty) merits a nice long read. As a casual fan of direly necessary and...
