Peggy Noonan, in defiance of all normal expectations, keeps getting more embarrassing. It's one thing to think outside the box. When the box is your head, you get this:

It was a good thing, the Nobel Peace Prize. Every year the giving of it was a matter of note...

When Bill "I Have Been and Will Continue to Be Wrong About Everything" Kristol departed the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times, a great cry was heard throughout the land.

"With whom will the Times replace him?" we wondered. "Oh, sure, we still have David Brooks. At least...

Writing--where else?--on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal, Whole Foods C.E.O. John Mackey presents the non-ignoramus's argument against what he calls "ObamaCare." This, in contrast to the all-ignoramus's arguments lately heard at town halls/brawls/mauls across the length and br. of the land. Let's see what he recommends.

After...

So, to sum up:

1. People who make far less than 250K per year, whose tax rates will be cut, spent Wednesday out in public demanding that Obama stop increasing their taxes. They proudly marched and defiantly yelled and etc., etc., insisting with waved signs and shaken fists on their...

The right-wing, who have no trouble telling the difference between fantasy and reality because they ignore reality completely, have an adorable new daydream. They're going "go Galt."

You will recall (having read, if nothing else, this) that the reference is to the character John Galt, from the beloved-by-idiots masterpiece...

They're young. They're hip. They're "bad." They've got conservative vibes and a with-it vocabulary full of talking points and "buzz words" and they really know what's happening, baby. They can bum out the seniors with some hairy entitlement alarmism, and then hang loose with the Jesus Freaks by coming on...

First they came for me, because I had made fun of Sarah Palin. And they said, "Well, yeah, she's a congenital liar who can't give a coherent answer to a simple question even with the aid of a TelePrompter and a ventriloquist--but she's not representative of the new era of...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to reading--okay; skimming--David Brooks (and just when I was despairing over Bill Kristol's exit from the New York Times, feeling bereft of a dependable source of right-wing dishonesty), the man known in our house as "that idiot" delivers one more...

COWARDLY LION: What makes the Hottentot so hot?
What puts the 'ape' in apricot?
Whatta they all got that I ain't got?

C. L.: Ya can say that again...

Poor us! We're just about to bid a fond good riddance to...

A Mr. Stephen Moore writes, regarding the bulky paper doorstop Atlas Shrugged, "If only 'Atlas' were required reading for every member of Congress and political appointee in the Obama administration. I'm confident that we'd get out of the current financial mess a lot faster."

Of course he is. But...

Be It Resolved:

1. That George W. Bush experience at least five (5) seconds of true, unfiltered, undefended, unmediated insight into his own character and the consequences of his actions. And that, once that period passes, its effects remain and haunt him for the rest of his life, impervious to...

Lately I'd begun to worry that the victory of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party would bring an end to the sort of right-wing rhetorical shamelessness we've come to depend on for amusement and diversion.

I feared -- silly me -- that the thought-buffoons of the right would either...

Newt Gingrich -- nothing if not opportunistic, and never one to decline an invitation to pontificate -- gives Bill O'Reilly a serious warning. Can you guess the danger about which Gingrich is so desperately concerned?

GINGRICH: Look, I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country...

(NOTE: Once again, a sequence of words has appeared in my mind seemingly of their own accord, prompting me to conclude that, for second time, I have been selected by God (or, in this case, His assistant) to convey a message to someone here on Earth. I reproduce them below....

NOTE: The following words occurred to me, seemingly out of nowhere, in the innermost recesses of the mind of my brain. I can only conclude that they came from God. I present them, therefore, not as a "writer" but as a medium, a messenger transmitting the divine text and converting...

John McCain has created a monster. No, wait. Two. John McCain has created two monsters.

One, of course, is Sarah Palin. This cute 'n' sassy Alaskan cookie, this g-droppin', moose-shootin' regular gal, this soccer mom who talks like a teen (and whose teen will soon be a mom), this utterly...

Everybody and his or her brother or sister (and that's everybody!) will be offering advice to Joe Biden on how to comport himself Thursday night in his much-anticipated/ dreaded debate with Sarah Palin. So why should I be any different?

Below, some last-minute ideas, offered free of charge and worth...

Get this:

Inside John McCain's campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. "It would be fantastic," said a McCain insider. "You would have...

1. Acceptance: Okay, fine. Whatever. They win. It's inevitable, really. A complicated or qualified truth is never as arousing as a good hate-charged lie. It's not that you can't make people be intelligent; it's that you can't make people care about things they don't care about. And half the country...

(To the tune of you-know-what, with apologies to you-know-who.)

Hey Jews
Don't make it worse
With the curse of
McCain and Palin
Remember
When fundamentalists pray
It's for the day
You're weepin' and wailin'

Hey Jews
Don't be a putz...