Now This Is Why God Invented Twitter

Tanned, rested, and ready for the 21st Century: John Quincy Adams photographed in 1843. The sixth POTUS —John Quincy Adams— has signed up —and not a moment too soon— on Twitter.  He will be posting daily entries from his diaries. As Jeannie...

More On “Inherent Vice”

Last week I posted about Inherent Vice, the new novel by Thomas Pynchon set in Los Angeles during the spring and early summer of 1970 – that is, in the second year of the Nixon Administration. Today the book went on sale nationwide, and to promote it Penguin...

Nixon’s America, Palin’s America

Suggesting that conservatives such as Sarah Palin face political doom, a Daily Kos writer observes: When Richard Nixon won the presidency, the silent majority of Americans was white and conservative. The demographics of this country have changed, and that change is...