Today is Pearl Harbor Day. Here’s a post I wrote a year ago in remembrance.

Doubleplusungood news.

…after reading this piece, that at some point in our not-too-distant future the government will try to ban driving while eating.

It’s the day after Thanksgiving, otherwise known as Black Friday. The day to wait patiently in store lines for bargains—in-between bites of turkey salad sandwich, doses of Tums, and the famous ritual of making turkey carcass soup. But neo-neocon readers … Continue reading →

Time magazine offers a list of the 25 most powerful women of the last century. There’s always something a bit tiresome and arbitrary about such lists, especially if they spotlight some group such as “women” or “blacks,” but even if … Continue reading →

…but remain hopelessly mired in cluelessness: If Democrats keep losing the message war, they worry, they will be wiped out in 2012. “There was a lot of passion in that room,” one senator said. “The reason is because the public … Continue reading →