Adam Gopnik writes about John Updike.
Naomi Klein on being mad as hell.
Matt Taibbi on the ridiculous Thomas Friedman.
Arresting sentence of the week:
Tanya Slaughter looks at me with I don’t give a shit eyes, gets off her bike.
– Nicola Keegan, Swimming, a novel (forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf, July 2009)
Anyone else got an arresting sentence to report?
If Obama wants to get votes in Congress I wonder why he doesn’t just frame his stimulus package (and everything else) as a matter of national security. Who’s gonna vote against something that is a matter of national security?
It seems to me that you could frame almost anything as a matter of national security, very easily.
And national security is the one thing Congress can agree on.
Also, I think Olympia Snowe should turn Independent and caucus with the Democrats. Why screw around being a Republican any longer?
