From the Fairfield County Weekly: Those who believe in the adage “when it rains, it pours” might take the tale of the plaintiffs in Kelo v. New London as a cue to buy two of every animal and a load of wood from Home Depot. The U.S. Supreme Court recently found that the city’s original seizure of private property was constitutional under the principal of eminent domain, and now New

A primer.

Jonah Goldberg, on Cindy Sheehan, the chickenhawk meme, and identity politics.  From “Playing Chickenhawk”: “Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Casey Sheehan, an American soldier who was killed in Iraq . . . “ That’s the sentence Cindy Sheehan and her increasingly lugubrious p.r. machine want every news story about her to begin with. Nobody likes the idea of criticizing a woman who’s lost her son in such circumstances. The hope

For some reason still unclear to me, I got it in my head last night to drink a pitcher of martinis while watching Sin City, the upshot from which is that I woke this morning on the living room floor in my underwear with no recollection of the movie whatever. But the worst part is, it wasn’t even my living room floor.  Which, that was a bit unsettling, I must