What bokononists whisper whenever they think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.


By Elton Beard

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who divide people into two kinds and those who don't. I don't.


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Sunday, October 16, 2005
9:30 PM PT
I was with stupid. The proximate cause was a question about Harriet Miers' Supreme Court nomination, but what's notable is what David Brooks really thinks of the political party he's been aligned with until, it seems, recently. From Friday's NewsHour:
Brooks: ... But second, as for the rift on the right, to me it's a rift between Republicans, who are not that intellectual but who are loyal to their party, and conservatives, whose entire movement is based on the idea that you take ideas from the wilderness and you win the argument of ideas. And that's why the Federalist Society was founded, that's why all these magazines are founded and think tanks are founded. Conservatives used to differentiate themselves - in the past, they do now - it was conservatives against Republicans. Republicans were the stupid party. Conservatives were the people who believed in a set of principles and ideas. And that rift is re-opening. It's closed for the past ten years but it's re-opening...
It must be a relief to pack up those ideas and head back to the wilderness, after faking it for ten long years.

Friday, October 14, 2005
1:30 PM PT
Shorter David Gelernter:
Adrift in a sea of phoniness
  • The Left has deviously degraded the discourse to where race-baiting and ad hominem attacks are now widely considered to be bad things, putting my side at severe disadvantage.

Thursday, October 13, 2005
3:00 PM PT
Shorter George Packer:
Iraq, for better and worse
  • I was wrong to support the unprovoked invasion and occupation of Iraq, but only because of the way it turned out. Sorry about all the death!

2:30 PM PT
Shorter Richard Cohen:
Let This Leak Go
  • This is my town and I'm really tired of interlopers from places like Chicago and Little Rock mucking up the ambiance.

Plus: a question for Mr. Cohen. About this:

... I pray Fitzgerald is not going to ... merely fold his tent, not telling us, among other things, whether Miller is the martyr to a free press that I and others believe she is or whether, as some lefty critics hiss, she's a double-dealing grandstander, in the manner of some of her accusers.
Now, the hissing bit is obviously no more than a typical Richard Cohen ad hominem. But the Washington Post columnist also clearly, if cattily, alleges that some of Ms. Miller's doubters are themselves guilty of double-dealing. Outside of Mr. Cohen's Washington, this is a non-trivial accusation.

So: just who are these serpentine lefties, and what sort of duplicity, deceit or treachery are they guilty of?

Wednesday, October 12, 2005
7:30 PM PT
Shorter Jeff Jacoby:
Social Security still needs fixing
  • If we do nothing about Social Security then by the year 2020 it will be running an annual deficit roughly equivalent to this year's spending on the Iraq war.

Plus: What Jacoby forgets to mention. The future Social Security deficit has been long anticipated and a large surplus has been accumulated in the trust fund against exactly that eventuality. Mr. Jacoby, mysteriously, omits any mention of this rather significant fact.

2:00 PM PT
Shorter Max Boot
The bottom line for Bush
  • If present trends continue, it will ultimately become obvious to all that the Bush presidency was a period of unprecedented peace and prosperity.

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