By Oct 28,2008

Why I Love Apple

I love Apple Computers because they’re quite possibly the most elitist company in existence. Here’s a snippet from their conference call today: Jobs and other Apple execs addressed questions related...

By Oct 28,2008

No silver bullets

James Goldgeier thinks a President Obama would have just as tough a go of it as a President McCain would: “There is an expectation by the Europeans that Barack Obama...

By Oct 28,2008

Faith no more

The Christian Science Monitor will stop printing daily. After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher...

By Oct 28,2008

From bad to worse

There’s a difference between bad and worse. To me, Sonny’s historical perspective reads like: Gaza was a hellhole, anyway, so why not bring Hamas to power? The Iranians have been...

By Oct 28,2008

Slate's politics, cont.

A couple of months back, Matt Yglesias made the argument that Slate is a center right publication. As I demonstrated by totaling up the staff’s votes in 2000 and 2004,...