Just as having a lot of pens doesn’t make you a great writer, having a lot of ideas doesn’t make you a great thinker.

On Friday I complained about NPR airing an interview with the Bush campaign manager. Today they aired a piece with the Kerry campaign manager. Again, just an extended campaign ad, but I was struck by something else: the  [more...]

People look for patterns everywhere, trying to find reasons why things happen. And of course, they’ve been looking for patterns to predict the outcome of the election. Good news — since the 1930s, every time  [more...]

Just an amusing line from Tom Shales this morning: “When I say something, I mean it,” George W. Bush said decisively near the end of last night’s prime-time presidential news conference. Nobody called  [more...]