Worth a watch.  For a good laugh.  And then, a cry.

Winston Smith could not be reached for comment.  But if he could, he’s probably be thinking something like, “well, that’s kind of a bummer” — though he wouldn’t dare say it aloud. As Phil C notes in an email, “I’d say the prospect of this not being an addendum to the gun-grabbers data base are approximately zero.”  True.  But I’ll go him one further:  I think then end game of

Tom W sent along a piece from Belmont Club and asked if I had thoughts on the subjects it tackles.  I answered him back via email, but I figured I may as well go ahead and post my brief reply here, as well.  Because why not, right? First, Richard Fernandez, PJM, “The Third Party”: William Galston, writing in the Wall Street Journal warns that the institutional Republican Party — the

This time, from Daniel Pritchard, alerting me to a piece by “journalist” Sarah Hill, writing in the Boston Review Blog, “Ted Cruz’s Castro Complex” Writes an apparently quite self-satisfied Mr Pritchard: Good afternoon! Online today at the Boston Review Blog, journalist Sarah Hill writes of Ted Cruz’s Castro Complex, “the disorder in which a professed hatred of Castro belies a perversely flattering fixation on Castro’s political genius, and in Cruz’s