Steyn Alert

Mark Steyn has a new column up. He's perhaps the most consistently witty commentator on the Anglosphere. [Sorry Lileks] Check it out here.

In his most recent article Steyn only slightly exaggerates the muzzy thinking of many on the left when he writes:

It's depressing that after three years the Democrats seem incapable of any kind of characterization of the enemy that approximates to reality. But it's not surprising. In the landscape of modern progressive pieties, there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.

This is the kind of Vietnam-Era thinking that frustrates me so much when I watch people like Chris Matthews pontificating on TV that we are fighting Iraqi "nationalism" and anti-colonialism. These people just don't get it.


Just for ideological balance, check out the mordantly (and occasionally) funny James Wolcott. He would be more consistently amusing if he raised his sights and commented more on the world rather than engaging in interminable cat spats with other bloggers. Still, he's worth a link so here.

And, while I'm at it: among Wolcott's recent targets, in addition to Instapundit, is Roger L. Simon, the mystery writer and Hollywood semi-insider. He, too, deserves a reading, although he too often descends into ethnic special pleading. Check him out here.

Ok! Ok! Since I mentioned him I should link to him. James Lileks is a wonderful writer and even better father [and, I presume, husband] and he has one of the all-time great daughters. He appears in a number of venues and you can find links to nearly all of them here. Right now, his blogging is minimal because he is finishing a book on (can you believe it?) matchbooks! Actually, the fragments he has posted seem to promise a brilliant and sensitive commentary on the lives of (extra) ordinary people. It's been fun to watch him mature as a writer. He's becoming one of the best and some of his occasional "screeds" are real gems.