If they’d hired John Cole, they’d have gotten far fewer complaints.

Instead, Pinch helped out an old buddy: down on his luck, unemployed and missing a soap box. Who says that free markets and charity don’t work?

It’s that kind of insider access that allows the Times to produce important journalism like the Judy Miller stories on WMDs.

I don’t mind, as long as he is described thusly:

William Kristol is the the child of prominent Straussian Irving Kristol. Irving was a founding member of the empirically seditious Neo-Conservative Movement and fellow at the Bush-fellating American Enterprise Institute. WIlliam himself co-founded the Project for the New American Century, a group that laid the groundwork for the war crimes of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney, atrocities for which William served as the most prominent apologist and media cheerleader. His hollow laugh and shit-eating grin have long served to distract viewers from the copious amounts of blood dripping from his hands and seeping from his very pores. He is writing this opinion column because the very rich are increasingly afraid that they have overplayed their hand, and are worried that without elaborate misdirection, the downtrodden majority might begin to realize that their children’s futures have been sold to pay for William Kristol’s diamond tie pins.

Well said, Mr. Corn.

Nobody will ever say that about Kristol.

His service as Dan Quayle’s brain …

there’s a really challenging gig, huh ???