Wow. Thank God we blocked this SOB, huh? I do not believe the National Intelligence Council could function effectively while its chair was under constant attack by unscrupulous people with a passionate attachment to the views of a political faction in a foreign country. It's the Jews. Still, I am sa...

The "American Idol" "tragedy off"... and other things. I can barely force myself to watch AI anymore, but reading descriptions of the show is great fun. Yes, I know, maybe you had fun reading my descriptions of the show in year's past, but the problem there is that I have to watch it, and my current...

See my reaction to "That's a little bit of bullshit": (The "he" under discussion is Rush Limbaugh.) blog advertising blog advertising...

I haven't traveled to all the states, but I've been to most of them. And while there is a lot of variety among people in different places, you can tell that there is something of a local personality. You may not notice it when you live there, but it really stands out when you travel through. For exa...

If I don't see your photograph or hear some description that stops me, I picture the men looking like Cary Grant and the women looking like... No, not Myrna Loy! Myrna Loy today would look frumpy. That hairstyle! I picture the women looking more like Jennifer Connelly. What's wrong with me?! I like ...

As everyone knows by now, Bill Kristol’s last NYT column appeared yesterday. Aside from the italicized footer “This is William Kristol’s last column,” it was unremarkable.  Which, most observers on the Left and Right seem to agree, was something it had in common with most of Kri...

Lean Left thinks you're not getting it. IN THE COMMENTS: Bissage says: I managed to get about one-third of the way through. That’s exactly the kind of sophomoric and prolix crap that tempts a survey course grader to take the stack of bluebooks and simply toss them down the stairs. Ha ha. Now, I've...

Maybe I seem too emotional, but spending is an emotional matter, and shoppers' emotions are important right now. I walked through Macy's today — the Madison Macy's — and there were huge discounts — 50 or 75% on racks and racks of clothes. And it looked so desperate. I need my clothes to play h...

Yesterday, the day I saw "The Curious Life of Benjamin Button" and wrote that post, I conked out early. Oh, I don't know if it was from the movie or from the pizza and one glass of wine I had afterward or just from being somewhat old. Most of the people in the movie audience were old, so old, that w...

The Economist asks: Other appetites... have been sated even to excess by modern business. Food far beyond the simple needs of stomachs, and sex (or at least images of it) far beyond the needs of reproduction, bombard the modern man and woman, and are eagerly consumed. But these excesses are built on...