Posted 10:51 PM by Gene

...to bind up the nation's wounds....

Ultimately if anyone can bind our nation's political wounds it is our president. Lincoln lives because his words set an immortal example of how a president can lead through the language. Our current president is a decent man, but as we've said over and over no recent president has led through words. And for a president to calm our boiling-over psyche he must be almost superhumanly brilliant in his language, and no agglomeration of speechwriters can help. The words must come from his heart, and while we've no doubt the president has good intentions that won't be enough.

The above-linked piece would not be possible without the frequently asinine, intolerably partisan coverage this story has received. We suspect it's running as a kind of mea culpa. However good its intentions this article's source cannot be believed as KAPLAN, INC. fought a civil war with itself, a war it LOST. Jake and his idle tendentious scribblers and the morons who run KAPLAN, INC. should be ashamed of themselves -- if news hacks can be.

Which reminds us -- where is Christopher Hitchens? We know he is gravely ill; we know also he is one of the few writers now capable of cutting through the crud. Where is he? And why has MICKEY kept silent on this matter? Where has he vaporized to?