Steve Clemons at The Washington Note earns a ticket behind the curtain and finds that the Wizard is depressed. After attending a dinner populated with “a few former Secretaries of State and foreign ministers, top intelligence officials, think tank chiefs, Senators and House Members, former National Security Advisors and Secretaries of Defense,” Clemons says that […]

Pennsylvania’s Rick Santorum has arrived at the strangest and most geographically dislocated analogy ever for the War on Terra®: it isn’t World War II or the Cold War, but the War of the Rings. There’s no way to do justice to his remarks, so we’ll let them speak for themselves.
“As the hobbits are going up […]

A friend of mine recently began writing a “three-dot” column, one of those exercises in stringing together otherwise unrelated items of gossip, celebrity spotting and local news. Washington Post reporter/columnist/man about town Dana Milbank has recently taken up a three-dot column at Slate, although he has so far refused to acknowledge the inherent dottiness of it. It occurs to me that this ethereal and short-attention-span format lends itself to coverage of the Bush administration and the Republican Congress as no other can, which is probably why the institutional press have covertly adopted it.