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When Janet Jackson flopped out of her top, the popular question asked by many of my fellow conservatives – to anyone who refused to believe that a 40-year-old woman’s exposed tit meant the end of civilization – was, What would you say to your child if he asked about the Awful Incident? This seemed to suggest that because a few parents would stumble over the question, it was out of reach for parents everywhere. It was the first time in a very long time I’d seen the Republican party talk down to the same people it claimed to implicitly trust....

When news of Yasser Arafat's death broke, I smiled and applauded. Then I went to bed. While most opinion columnists were rushing to their computers and wedging the event as best they could between their agendas and their general thoughts on the Jewish people, there seemed no point in repeating the things all reasonable people have been saying for the last four decades. (Or, for that matter, the New York Post, which put it brilliantly: "Arafat Dead / And He Won't Be Missed.") Mankind is better because the evil old bastard finally died, but stretching the point out to 750...

As it turned out, the Great Outrage of election day were the tens of thousands - if not hundreds of thousands - of minorities denied the right to vote by Republicans in key battleground States like Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. It says something particularly devious about modern politics when ... oh, wait. I'm being told that no minorities were denied the right to vote, by Republicans or anyone else. Huh. Well, that's just one more thing this election has in common with the one four years ago. Let's go back to late Wednesday morning for a minute. At the exact...