I can’t be the only one who saw the creepily Mickey Mouse–ish masks worn by riot police in Tblisi and immediately started humming the theme from Brazil. But thinking about one of my favorite movies also brought to mind the following exchange from the film, which now seems disconcertingly familiar: Jill: Doesn’t it bother […]

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For those of you who didn’t grow up (or have small children) in the 80s, the reference at the close of the previous post is to the cartoon Care Bears. The Care Bear Stare was a sort of deus ex machina the magical furballs could employ when faced with some insuperable obstacle: They’d line up […]

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So, I feel more than a little churlish picking on a publication that’s just run something I wrote, but the intro to this profile of Harry Reid in TAP is a sort of perfect storm of journalistic tics that set my teeth on edge. Harry Reid loves movies. “I go to the movies every chance […]

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A new Giuiliani radio ad about healthcare apparently botches the numbers on prostate cancer survival rates in the UK. In the spot, Rudy says his chance of surviving the disease in the British system would be just 44 percent, compared with 82 percent in the U.S. According to ABC, however: But the data Giuliani cites […]

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Hey journalists, looking for someone to comment on the fires raging in California? My old friend Kevin O’Reilly observes that Michael “Heck of a Job” Brown is now pitching himself as an analyst-for-hire.

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One of your reporters just uttered an a sentence containing the phrase: “which, for all intents and purposes, exists in name only.” Please fire whatever editor permitted this. Thak you.

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It would be totally embarrassing to have my ass handed to me by a 23-year-old.

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I think it’s because I’m reading a novel in which art figures pretty heavily, but my first thought upon reading the headline ““Olmert bans mobiles in meetings” was: “What has he got against Calder?”

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Megan starts blogging at her new digs today.

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I don’t think there’s any serious disagreement that the sudden rise of the blogosphere these past few years has corresponded with an equally dramatic spike in the currency and prevalence of libertarian ideas. Like the impressive growth rates that only Third World economies can achieve, this is in large part just a measure of their […]

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