"Boy, I can't think of a better Christmas present than to read about these vile unpleasant asocial deluded individuals suffering..."

"... all locked together in a big metal box. Schadenfreude to the max."

Should Todd "legitimate rape" Akin step aside?

The editors of the Nation Review Online say he should: While Akin is a stalwart conservative and an honorable man, we regret to say that he ...

"If being a louse were a crime, John Edwards would hang for it."

"But he is instead facing prison for alleged campaign-finance violations, and it is our obligation to come unenthusiastically to his de...

"If you could do it again, would you publish 'The Talk: The Nonblack Version'?"

"I never ponder counterfactuals." But he also says: "I may even just give up writing and work as a butler or something. I som...

Rich Lowry is keeping it short.

"Needless to say, no one at National Review shares Derb’s appalling view of what parents supposedly should tell their kids about blacks...

"In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion. If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth." — The NYT deletes that quote!

Whoa! That quote was the centerpiece of my blog post linking to the NYT story about Jill Abramson taking over as the new executive editor ...

"Politics in a democracy are always 'vulgar' — since democracy is rule by the 'vulgus,' the common people, the crowd."

Writes William Kristol , rankling at Peggy Noonan's "In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgariza...

How did Sarah Palin get picked for VP?

In The New Yorker, Jane Mayer offers an account of what happened, beginning in blogdom: In February, 2007, Adam Brickley..., a self-describe...