Sitting in a doctor’s office yesterday morning, way too early for a day off, and I’d only managed to suck down two cups of coffee on the way out the door. Dutifully and dazedly I sat, plowing through the morning paper, when a middle-aged woman hurried in and announced to the receptionist that this was an emergency.
Emergency? The […]

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Kunstler has one of his patented doom-and-gloom forecasts this week - can’t say I disagree with his basic premise, which is that we have entered what he’s long called a “long emergency,” which we as a nation have no clue or inclination to deal with.
It’s Kunstler’s description of how our society has changed since the […]

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Good piece by Bruce Bartlett:
The only thing holding this country back from having a welfare state as large as Europe’s, conservatives argue, is the low level of taxation that most Americans are loath to abandon. Thus in their own minds, conservatives believe that holding the line on taxes, no matter how large the deficit, is […]

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City, who’s now blogging over at TownHall - a right-wing site - asks the question:
Am I a “winger”?

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Will likely flesh this out for the print edition at some point, this idea has been rattling around my head for a while - and comes to a head today, reading Nate Silver’s response to George Will’s condemnation of the “public option.”
Will writes this:
Assurances that the government plan would play by the rules that private […]

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Sullivan:
…the Burkean question about Obama is whether the crises we are all confronting require or demand a seismic shift, to keep the American ship afloat. I have felt a deep ambivalence about this since one of my first posts absorbing what Obama meant. But I have to say, as the  depth of the corruption of […]

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