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...

By • Mar 20,2009

A story I will never, ever read

From the front page of Slate: Sad State: How being a governor became the toughest job in America. By Eliot Spitzer. “In fact, it was so hard I had to...

By • Mar 20,2009

Jon Stewart’s Selective Ire

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 20,2009

Turning Back the Clock

Matt gets it exactly right: A substantial swathe of policy elites, starting with Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke and George Bush and now evidently including Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers...

By • Mar 19,2009

We’re the secret ingredient!

Trailer for a brilliant new movie. Still won’t give me as many nightmares as the original, though. Gobstopper Trailer – watch more funny videos