Vanity Hair

Graydon Carter, eminent erudite editor of Vanity Fair, has some advice for pubescent Americans and our electoral shenanigans in his latest piece entitled “Man Up, America!” Read his penetrating analysis here.

Or don’t. You will have learned as much either way.

For those of you smart stupid enough to have skipped it, here are the salient points:

The anger among the electorate is palpable. And all so very gauche. The “attendant hatred” for Obama . . . → Read More: Vanity Hair

The Great Unwatched

Katie Couric, according to the fawning Howard Kurtz, is feeling liberated.

That’s good, what with all the oppression generally suffered by talking heads who make $15 million a year. Imagine the brutality of an existence where one—by reading words into a camera—is rewarded with a salary that eclipses the gross domestic product of Afghanistan. Now imagine being forced to read those words into that camera from inside a posh New York studio. The horror.

But brave . . . → Read More: The Great Unwatched

Dig, Dug

Pity Harry Reid.

He’s craven. He’s criminally negligent. He’s been living on a fixed income. He’s less commanding than a cardigan-clad Mr. Rogers. He’s less rooted in reality than a cardigan-clad Mr. Rogers chillin’ with King Friday in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. And yesterday, fighting for his political life, he endured the greatest indignity of all: a Nevada campaign appearance by The ‘Rack. Said the Smoker-in-Chief to the assembled throng at Orr Middle School:

Harry . . . → Read More: Dig, Dug