Now With Dignified Forms! 
The New York Times identifies a looming menace in presidential monumental-ism:  a renowned architectural crackpot’s involvement in Washington’s prospective Adams family memorial.
Rodney Mims Cook Jr is a man with a mission: hurling architecture back in time to an era of stately forms, and a whole lot of pillars. Cook gave Atlanta […]

It Girl
The McCain campaign practice of repeating lies even in the face of their refutation  has spread to their apologists.
Even after National Treasure Thomas Frank blew up Sarah Palin’s Truman-homage-via-quoting-a-nut-who-wanted-FDR-dead, The Weekly Standard claims that “”So far no one has picked up on the significance of Palin’s invocation of Harry Truman in […]

Craggy!
South Dakota’s favorite sons look down on an aspirant.

…They Might Say, “I Suppose, But Lose The Doofus Narrator”

It’s come to this: after following the familiar path from dissident Trotskyist to NATO enthusiast, Christopher Hitchens finds himself in the company of “libertarians.”
But it’s all for charity!
Hitchens recently attended a booze-up benefiting the “Jefferson One” - the sole arrestee […]

Fair, Balanced, And Without Clue
Fox News has rushed to embrace all things Founding Father-ish, proudly affirming it’s own targeting alongside the great dead whites by beloved Chicago minister Jeremiah Wright.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported Wright’s speech at a weekend funeral, and it was noteworthy for stating the smokin’ hot non-controversial obvious.

“… while Wright […]