Category: The Dish

Kevin Drum asks a good question.

National Review puts the boot in on abortion. Kudos to them for sticking to principles.

One way to get back at your cell-phone company. Next time, try a cheaper car.

A reader writes:

"Just a report back. The emails have been coming in around 10 to 1 against allowing comments. I’ll take it all under advisement."

Yeah, sure you will …

It’s readers like that who make me want to keep the current format – if only so their well-honed sarcasm doesn’t get drowned out by obscenity and flaming and spam. After Coulter and Imus, I tend to think restraining the impulse to allow any comments any time might be a good thing for a while.

The French entry in this year’s Eurovision song contest:

"The evidence is sufficient that we should move toward the most effective possible steps to remove carbon from the atmosphere," – Newt Gingrich, debating John Kerry on climate change.

The latest from the world of Rove.

Just a report back. The emails have been coming in around 10 to 1 against allowing comments. I’ll take it all under advisement.

A brutal bombing. Analysis here.

(Photo: A man tries to help a seriously injured man after a huge blast in the Government Palace in the center of Algiers City 11 April 2007. At least 17 people were killed and scores injured in a series of car bombs that rocked the Algerian capital, including one that targeted the government headquarters. By Fayez Nuraldine/AFP/Getty.)

A Cornerite criticizes a Republican thus:

He’s a bonapartist or, as Grover puts it, a caesarist. I don’t mean just that he has a big ego and thinks he’s the greatest thing since the hula hoop — that’s pretty much a job requirement for politicians. Instead, (and again, this is just the vibe I get from him, I don’t have any youtube videos to point to) he acts as though he’s the embodiment of the General Will, the personification of the Nation, "the man on the white horse", as the French say. I don’t mean to sound unhinged about the man, but his character — his political temper, at least — is simply incompatible with republican institutions.

George "We Do Not Torture" Bush? Dick "Go Fuck Yourself" Cheney? Rudy "Kill The Ferrets" Giuliani? Nah. Those caesarists seem to have made the cut. It’s McCain who summons up these feelings. Sigh.