Alrighty, some things collected over the past few days:
- TCS on who’s really losing the U.S. car business (Hint: it’s the UAW)
- Reason tackles President Bush’s latest and greatest quote: “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system”
- Peggy Noonan talks about a more frugal holiday (only worth it for the final bit on Blagojevich):
Rarely has there been such a case in which the sin is perfectly represented by the physical presence of the sinner. I had never seen him until the news this week, and there he was, a lipless, dull-featured, wig-wearing moron with a foul-mouthed harridan of a wife. (Oh, maybe it’s not a wig, but I think Chicago should know everyone in New York thinks it is.) The minute I saw him I thought: That’s exactly what a guy like that would look like! And then I thought: Oh, God bless him, because it’s kind of a gift when things look as they are. Not all is shade and shadow, some things are hearteningly obvious.
He really was abusive. He really was selfish. He really gives you something to react against, a sense of “That’s what not to be.”
