Author: Andrew Sullivan

A reader writes:

Isn't it time that Republicans like Tom Campbell start calling out Palin and other Republican tea-partiers as the true RINOs?

That's when it will get interesting. I give it till 2013.

Thai pro-government demonstrators dance and sing during a small rally at the Victory Monument in Bangkok on May 6, 2010.Thailand's embattled premier Abhisit Vejjajiva said on May 6, the lower house of parliament will be dissolved in September, paving the way for November polls in a bid to end a crippling political crisis. Photo by Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Image.

Michael Knights calls it for Iran:

Iran has successfully stymied the development of a strong nationalist government in Baghdad for at least another four years — the ultimate payoff for its virtuoso performance in manipulating Iraqi politics. With the U.S. government's horizon limited to its military withdrawal, an exhausted Washington does not appear capable of making such fine distinctions and will likely greet the formation of a new Iraqi government, any government, with relief.

Orr reviews Iron Man 2. He thinks Downey was overshadowed by the suit:

[T]he movie gradually succumbs to the excesses that typically adhere to the genre: too many characters, too many storylines, too much CGI…Iron Man 2 is a perfectly diverting action film—particularly following the extreme clunkers of last season—but it's a reminder that Downey is at his best when given, as he was to a substantial degree last time out, a one-man show. I, for one, will keep my fingers crossed for … Man 3: Tony Stark Unplugged.

Andrew Martin attacks ridiculous little bikes.

"In the realm of practical politics, two things must happen – both of which are likely. There must be one more General Election to disillusion Labour optimists as to the measure of their political strength, standing by themselves. But equally on our side there must be a certain change.

The Liberal Party is divided between those who, if the choice be forced upon them, would vote Conservative, and those who, in the same circumstances, would vote Labour. Historically, and on grounds of past service, each section has an equal claim to call itself Liberal. Nevertheless, I think that it would be for the health of the party if all those who believe, with Mr. Winston Churchill and Sir Alfred Mond, that the coming political struggle is best described as Capitalism versus Socialism, and, thinking in these terms, mean to die in the last ditch for Capitalism, were to leave us.

The brains and character of the Conservative Party have always been recruited from the Liberals, and we must not grudge them the excellent material with which, in accordance with our historic mission, we are now preserving them from intellectual starvation. It is much better that the Conservative Party should be run by honest and intelligent ex-Liberals, who have grown too old and tough for us, than by Die-Hards. Possibly the Liberal Party cannot serve the State in any better way than by supplying Conservative Governments with Cabinets, and Labour Governments with ideas," – J.M. Keynes, in a speech given to the Manchester Reform Club in February 1926.

Behold.

The Jon Stewart generation?