By • Dec 21,2009

How did we get here?

Essential post from Peter Suderman about how we ended up in a place where the left was attacking health care on the same terms as the right: So now we’re...

By • Dec 21,2009

Bah, humbug

Jesuit James Martin has had it up to here with our commercialized Christmas: “Magic” is another popular word on Madison Avenue: Pier One’s catalog says, “Make Christmas Magic!” Sadly, all...

By • Dec 21,2009

The geopolitics of nonsense

This holiday season, my wife indulged one of my lowbrow habits by gifting me with a 3-DVD collection of pro-wrestling highlights from the 1980s, entitled The Best of Saturday Night’s...

By • Dec 21,2009

A fine day for global warming

It’s a snow day here in the nation’s capital, with most folks still digging out from under the foot and a half of snow that fell on Saturday. Wouldn’t the...

By • Dec 17,2009

On an Islamic Civil War

This is what happens when you give someone like Tom Friedman a column: He writes something that is either indecipherably stupid or a call for hundreds of thousands of people...