Life in the big leagues

In recent months, I’ve contemplated Hugh Hewitt’s description of “exaggeration, invective, (and) anonymous sources” as tactics “exclusive to the left”; read the cranky seventh-tier blogger ramblings of Maureen Dowd’s brother, and winced repeatedly at the ongoing mystery that is David Brooks. And I’ve wondered if there’s anything the editors of the New York Times op-ed …

Arrgh

I am trying to celebrate the birth of the Baby Jesus in an appropriately capitalistic, if secular, fashion. But every time I try to get out, they drag me back in. Which is to say, I am unable to resist commenting on Maureen Dowd’s column today. Actually, it’s not Maureen Dowd’s column, per se — …