Author: Sonny Bunch
By • Feb 01,2009

Hey, it's the Super Bowl!

I don’t want the Steelers to win, but they probably will. If you’re making any illegal wagers, I’d take the Steelers at -7. Their defense is just too good… The...

By • Feb 01,2009

Low-level snark

I’m currently at work on a piece on political discourse, a key portion of which will rely on David Denby’s new book Snark. The book is flawed, perhaps fatally, because...

By • Jan 30,2009

Opera I can live with

I’m not terribly fond of opera…just have never been able to get into it. But this is opera we can all get behind. h/t Pajiba

By • Jan 30,2009

Opposition

Yuval Levin has a smart post up about the House Republican reaction to the stimulus bill: When they manage to unify the entire House Republican caucus with David Brooks and...

By • Jan 30,2009

Dept. of funny typos

Matt Yglesias: Just about everywhere, you need a special license of some kind to see booze. [emp mine] Good lord! I break the law every single time I walk past...

By • Jan 29,2009

I can't tell if he's joking…

Over at The Plank, they linked to Jon Chait’s 1997 story about Chait’s evening as a coat checker at the Omni Shoreham during a trio of inaugural balls. In it,...