Commentary - America's Future

By David Donadio • Sep 07,2008

Contextual advertising Henry Kissinger can get down with

The New York Sun is running a story by Ladane Nasseri of Bloomberg News on an Iranian military exercise scheduled during Ramadan, and GoogleAds has introduced a hilarious juxtaposition into...

By Sonny Bunch • Sep 06,2008

What do I have to feel guilty about, again?

Over at Slate there’s an article with this (kind of misleading) subhed: “Should fans feel guilty about all of the injuries in professional football?” I say it’s kind of misleading...

By David Donadio • Sep 06,2008

How awful

Bob Novak has written a remarkable piece about his brain tumor. I’ve only met Novak a couple times, but he was at the top of his game back in April,...

By David Donadio • Sep 06,2008

Akira Kurosawa

Acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa died 10 years ago today. IMDB tips the hat to him in its daily poll, whose results are kind of embarrassing, but a nice gesture,...

By Damir Marusic • Sep 05,2008

NATO's Paper Tiger

Frank Fukuyama asks all the right questions about our foolish Georgia policy over at The American Interest‘s blog. (Full disclosure: my other job is at AI.) If Cheney and McCain...

By Sonny Bunch • Sep 05,2008

Baldwinonomics

I really got a kick out of the New Yorker’s profile of Alec Baldwin. A number of things struck me,* but this sentence has a deeper grain of truth to...