Pick One

You can call America's conflict with Islamic extremists a (or even "the") "long war". Or you can talk about the latitude which should be given a President or government during wartime. To attempt both at once shows only stupidity, and a presumption that others share your stupidity.

Pleas for Calm

How can we stay calm at the behest of the same people who caused the panic in the first place?

Who Knew?

Another great headline in the British papers: "Shock admission from Bank of England... WE CAN'T CONTROL MORTGAGE RATES!" Coming next, weather and teenagers are also tricky.

Explanations

In his debate with Matt Feeney, Jonah Goldberg is apparently too squeamish to close the loophole in his argument: to point out the "child-rearing customs" of mutilation and domestic slavery for girls, and violence and drunken idleness for boys, are a large contributor to the merely economic failures Mr. Goldberg does note.

Brothers

So it turns out I have two things in common with Paul Krugman: neither of us writes about what we understand, and neither of us is ever going to win a Nobel prize.