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On Saturday, I post about Tony Lewis’s last column and today Jay Nordlinger and James Taranto make much the same points! Advantage: Excused Lame! Read it here first!

Speaking of arteriosclerosis, retired Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll of the Center for Defense Information says that the United States is acting like a schoolyard bully. The only excuse for warmed-over Reagan-era statements like these are if they’re being phoned in … Continue reading →

Michael Kelly made the same point this summer, more amusingly and in aesthetic terms, but the op-ed in Saturday’s Washington Post presents a bleak picture of America. We’re too fat. Obesity is epidemic, as Surgeon General David Satcher noted this … Continue reading →

Anthony Lewis is retiring after 32 years as a columnist for the New York Times. Of course, no one has read anything he’s written in the last ten years. The passion which he brought to his column is matched only … Continue reading →

Winona Ryder’s lawyer says her arrest was a “misunderstanding.” Yes, she probably thought that since she was a celebrity, the items would be “complimentary,” part of the Celebrity Bill of Rights (“The right to VIP and V-VIP rooms shall not … Continue reading →

Does doing this blog mean I have to start reading the New York Times again? Yecch, it’ll be like doing an autopsy on a “floater”…

Another activator to beginning this was Cindy Adams’s column in the New York Post, where our revered former President offered a breathlessly admiring nation this insight: There wasn’t a sicker person than I on September 11. I was on the … Continue reading →

I really have no business doing this. With a full-time job and fur children to take care of otherwise, little of my time is my own to command, I am not a professional writer, nor do I immerse myself in … Continue reading →