Navel Gazing on Saturday Afternoon

OMOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGMGOMG G GONZALES MAY HAVE COMMITTED PERJURY!!!!! OMOKMFGELKFJMDKSMFKLDS MFKLS TEH LIES TEH LIES! More information about perjury can be found on the internet.* Seriously: It looks bad, indeed it may be worse than Watergate. Here’s my question for the haters: Do you think that my apparently insufficient number of posts about him means that I [...]

YouMoved

The Ron Paul campaign announced, and other campaigns have confirmed, that CNN is moving the YouTube debate to another date, possibly in December. Patrick Ruffini continues his passionate plea for Rs to stick with the format here. The push to participate has some surprising (to me) supporters, including Michelle Malkin and Mark Steyn. Hugh Hewitt [...]

In the Arena

Angels on Pinhead

My friend Andrew Sullivan makes an interesting case on the “serious” front. But I think Andrew’s being a bit too hard on himself for being as dismissive of the anti-war arguments and arguers as he was. For the record, I wasn’t dismissive, not even of Janeane Garofolo–and you can look it up. But I’d quibble [...]

In the Arena

Today in Iraq

There’s a lovely V.S. Naipaul story–brain fog, the title escapes me now–in which a white couple is driving through an African country during a time of troubles. They stop at a gas station and a smiling African attendant pulls out a squeegee to clean their windshield. But the rubber has been worn off the squeegee, [...]