THE STATE OF THE UNION

I wrote my post-speech thoughts below. They’re the first items under Tuesday, and filed at 10.35:09 pm Eastern time. That might be a hackathon record.

LETTERS: Cheney’s prerogatives; gay rights a non-issue?; a reader reviews the New York Times.
(With this installment of letters, Reihan Salam will be editing the letters page. I’ll still be reading them and selecting many for posting – just not editing the actual page.)

KURTZ COMES THROUGH: The Washington Post’s media columnist nails it today. It was all in his book, of course, Hot Air, the first book to expose the problem of pundits on corporate budgets. But guess what? That book is out of print, and the pundits’ corporate fees are bigger than ever.