Please never try to write satire in another voice ever again. I've been thinking for a while at picking some of the Pulitzer-winning columns from 1999 at random and seeing just how debased the standards of whoever votes for those awards are. But I'm not sure...
By now we all know about Bush's politically stupid and unconscionable veto of Congress's bill expanding S-CHIP, the health care program that would cover kids whose families are not poor.
Good god:More than 300 people were picked up by ambulances along the course, many of them suffering from nausea, heart palpitations and dizziness from the stifling heat, fire officials said..
Of the innumerable jaw-dropping feats of illogic performed by American "pro-lifers," I've always been amused by the fact that to the forced pregnancy lobby women are simultaneously routinely getting abortions on a whim because a pregnancy might interfere with their pedicures and yet such helpless, desperate...
Shorter Glenn Reynolds: It's unconscionable that the government would provide health assistance to families making the austounding sum of $45,000 a year. They'll probably just use it to buy more.
I heard from more than one Yankee fan who was happy that they avoided the Angels. Somehow, past history or no past history, I'm guessing they don't believe that anymore..
Henry Farrell notes a contradiction in Brooks's embarrassingly belated realization that George W. Bush is not, in fact, a Burke/Oakeshott conservative. My favorite example from the Brooks archives, however, has.
George M. Steinbrenner is principal owner of the New York Yankees. It's not just the announcers who can see only one possible explanation for Greatest Pitcher In Known Human History.
Via Yglesias, a fun and interesting Sunday morning diversion: check out this website that uses census data to give you the demographic of your ZIP code. Especially interesting for you new yorkers, where ZIP codes are proxy for income, level of bourgeoisity, and, of course, coolness....
As you may have heard, Christopher Hitchens wrote an article in Vanity Fair this week ruminating on the fact that a young man, recently killed in Iraq, may have taken.
I have mixed feelings regarding the ignominious participation of the Cubs in this year's playoffs. I'm happy to see them lose, and glad that the defeat came in the form.