By • Dec 07,2009

What was Obama doing for three months?

If you don’t read Shadow Government, you should. It’s a blog written by a lot of very smart people who held significant positions in the Bush administration. (No, that isn’t...

By • Dec 07,2009

Afghanistan: A GOP twofer?

David Obey, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee has introduced a war tax bill. “As presidential historian Robert Dallek reminds us, ‘war kills off great reform movements’,” Obey said, noting...

By • Dec 07,2009

WAFCA winners

The Washington Area Film Critics Association (of which I am a member) released it’s best-of list this morning, and I wanted to pass them along to you guys. My write...

By • Dec 04,2009

Mel Brooks

I spent much of the last week crafting a profile about the one-and-only Mel Brooks, parodist extraordinaire. One of the things I came to appreciate is his absurd longevity: Working...

By • Dec 03,2009

All Camped Out

“Glee,” Fox’s hot new musical comedy, is set in a small town in western Ohio, and that is the source of everyone’s woes. Viewers should, of course, know better than...