By • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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...

By • Sep 05,2008

The Agony of Choice

Every presidential election is disappointing in its own way, but 2008 is like being forced to decide which foot to blow off. From the Republicans, we get a foreign policy...