Manipulation As A Virtue: One of the writers I admire most is Judith Martin, better known as "Miss Manners." Sometimes, though, s...

Disconnection: A little while back, I wrote : It's interesting, in terms of how disconnected this election is from reality. If you want ...

Smartocracy: John Derbyshire has an article on America's issue with intelligence. On the one hand, it's an amazing change in the w...

President Batman? As Grim likes to use movies to instruct and inform on morality, this item caught my eye. Andrew Klavan, writing in the Wal...

Yikes: From Ireland (via Kim du Toit ): ON THE one hand, I expected some uproar in Ireland over my piece about Ethiopia on July 10. But the...

OK, But... Actually, the McCain one is a really great poster. It frames his age and experience as "wisdom," which is a traditiona...

I said it sounded better in the original German: I'm not the only one to notice either.

Congratulations! You Bought A House! Four Hundred Thousand of them , actually. The effect of this kind of thing is to punish economic actor...

NYT Economics @ Work: The New York Times suffers a massive drop in its circulation, advertising, revenue and profits. Solution? Raise th...

CNN Hits Obama: We've seen the love affair at length, but give CNN credit where credit is due. This is a technical violation of the Log...

Schadenfreudeburg . Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this mornin...

Defending Obama: It's clear by now that I don't have any brief for the guy. However, just as I defended him a bit this weekend on t...

Yeah, This Is What We're Talking About: But what's it based on? 'He's a gift from the world to us.' He is? What's...

A Service to the Readers: We don't usually do public service announcements here, but this one on jalapenos targets the readership in se...

Groan : From the AFP : Barack Obama's campaign unveiled a sparkling makeover for his chartered plane on Sunday, ahead of the presumptive...

Who He Is: As a point of comparison for the discussion below, consider the piece on McCain in today's New York Times : Mr. McCain, 71, ...

"Who Are You?" I realize that this is an ad hominem rather than a cogent argument. Still, since I've spent the entire weeken...

Homer: The Claremont Institute reviews a book on Homer , remarking that Alcibiades once slapped a grammar school teacher for not having a co...

Updates: I've added the Whited Sepulchre to the blog roll, at its author's request; and while I was doing that, fixed several old an...

Cost of Government Day: The Whited Sepulchre celebrates "Cost of Government Day," the day when you've finally paid off what y...