Ezra Klein

Armando is all Kossack-gone-wild on this article detailing The Atlantic’s move to DC, and DC’s efforts to be more intellectual. He mocks the district for being disconnected from reality (more than anywhere else in the world, apparently), for having a dull-as-dirt press corps, and for generally not being the cosmopolitan culture capital that the piece […]

I, too, apologize for today’s dearth of posts. The Munz household spent most of the day consumed with Passover-Related Program Activities, and between the four questions and the thing with dipping your pinky in the wine ten times, I didn’t have time to make it to the keyboard. As a parting shot, I want to […]

Thanks to the weekend’s guest-bloggers. Be sure to check them out at their own places, Dan at Politics and War and Angelica at Battle Panda.

[First of all, an apology to all for falling down on my guest-blogging duties today. It was just one of those warm spring days made for walking the ol’ faithful schnauzer in the dappled shade, watching baseball, eating chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven…you get the picture. But now it’s time for one last […]

My new practice of regularly reading NRO’s Corner is paying off in spades. Today, Andrew Stuttaford manages to stop bitching about Cameron Diaz long enough to make this bold assertion: And as, for those ‘spiritual’ values that Diaz purports to find in picturesque hellholes such as Bhutan, I suspect that, given the chance, most of […]

I think Brad Plumer gets Ann Coulter just right. Also, he owes Chris Chamberlain an apology. – E to the Z.

Matt, celebrating an apparent breakdown in GOP message discipline, notes in passing that: Bill Frist has taken this up as his pet cause in a clear effort to become the candidate of the James Dobson crowd. A lot of Democrats, I think, are rooting for Frist to get the 2008 presidential nomination. He’s a lightweight, […]

Daniel Gross at Slate is incredulous that Americans are actually paying down their credit card debt in response to increasing interest rates. Could it be? Consumers actually responding to changes in incentives as if they make their financial decisions with some semblance of rationality? I must say you can also color me surprised, if pleasantly […]

The latest Democracy Corps poll found: Requiring Congress to forego a pay raise in any year the government runs a deficit or raids the Social Security trust fund, and requiring that any future benefit cuts to Social Security should apply to congressional pensions as well. Matt doesn’t like the idea because civil servant salaries are […]

By now we’ve all heard about Rick Santorum’s bill seeking to prevent the National Weather Service from actually sharing weather forecasts with Americans. You see, that “socialized weather” business has got to stop. It’s taking the bread right out of the mouths of private web-based forecast providers who work so hard to make a profit […]