Now that the country is in an economic meltdown, your daily trips to Whole Foods will be replaced with ones to McDonald’s. I’m Lovin’ it! BUT, did you know that this fast food joint is also a sissy in the fight against the ignorant bitters? Many moons ago, a hate group called the American Family Association boycotted McDonald’s …

Rick Davis believes this election is about personalities, not issues. What he meant to say is that he wants it to be about personalities. That has always worked for Republicans. Ever since Regan pulled in the so-called Reagan Democrats and cemented the notion that the Democrats were godless heathens who want to abort your families …

Required reading: Gary Hart’s essay on seizing the historical cycle.

At the risk of convincing you that the only thing I read is Harper’s, Leonard’s outrage that today’s Supreme Court decision took so long and his subsequent fear that McCain will make hay out of it is a great segue to Mark Slouka’s essay, “Democracy and Deference”. This is macro-view stuff. Forget just how awful …

On their home page this week, Harper’s is featuring a 1969 essay by Diana Trilling called “The Uncomplaining Homosexuals” that compares J.R. Ackerly’s seminal gay memoir My Father and Myself with Phillip Roth’s Jewish-identity psychosexual novel Portnoy’s Complaint. It’s an interesting read on the whole “Is there a fundamental social difference between gay and straight …

"Liberals Relax"
Seems we’ve won the culture wars.
Somebody tell them