Crabs Peter Hitchens. I picked the same nit as I live-blogged on election night. Scroll to "yikes." And I note that he misused the word again in his first press conference. Perhaps when he's done apologizing to Na…
In the early morning hours yesterday, this blog received a visit from our ghost commenter Sir Archy -- dead these 260 Years and more . As a ghost, he had something to say about Barack Obama's first press conference, in which…
Said Barack Obama , at his press conference today, emphasizing the economy and pointing out a number of things that need to be done immediately. Presumably, President Bush is paying attention. ADDED: There are 2 quotes that belon…
Stanley Fish takes on the Kevin Barrett controversy in an op-ed in the NYT today: Mr. Barrett’s critics argue that academic freedom has limits and should not be invoked to justify the dissemination of lies and fantasies. Mr. Bar…
NYT TV critic Alessandra Staley writes with disdain about the Tom Brokow sign off on NBC: However sad it was to see Mr. Brokaw leave on Wednesday night, it was sadder to watch NBC milk the transition for every drop of bathos and …
How strange it must be to be Nancy Reagan today, after all these years out of the public eye, tending to the man who no longer even knew he had been the President. The tiny woman in a little black dress is standing at the arm of …