By • Mar 23,2009

Spinal tapped

I absolutely must compliment Mr. Donadio on his reference to Spinal Tap. On a scale of ten, Spinal Tap in an eleven. At the same time, I must disagree vigorously...

By • Mar 23,2009

Giving Partisanship Its Due

You could hardly be human, American, and a consumer of television media in the loosest sense and have missed last week’s duel between the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and Mad...

By • Mar 21,2009

Faulty reasoning

Re: the Osirak Option, Matt Yglesias says: But there’s really no reason to think that unilateral airstrikes will do anything to the delay the point at which Iran has a...

By • Mar 21,2009

Take zat!

You’ve gotta love people who protest by reading a book (or at least buying a book or saying that they’ve read it). From the Telegraph: Mr Sarkozy, a man often...

By • Mar 20,2009

Father and Son

A lot of dumb jokes leap to mind when imagining what it might be like to be raised by George Orwell, but I found this account quite moving.

By • Mar 20,2009

This one goes to 11

The Times has a thoroughly useless op-chart today on the states of Iraq and Afghanistan. Of particular interest is Iraq’s supposed measure of political progress at 7 on a scale...