The American Spectator

I am sitting in a peace pipe circle of about a dozen people led by a half-Seminole, half-white medicine man named James Mooney. Another man, Jeffrey Bronfman, is shaking black pipe ash into my cupped hands and praying over it as others sit contemplatively, staring at a painted bull skull in the middle of the circle. Mooney blows smoke into the air, and it hovers for a few seconds before floating into the New Mexico desert.
(January 2012)

New York Times
After several months’ absence from appearing in this illustrious department, Miss Maureen Dowd is back from institutional confinement yet she remains her girlish self:

I was intrigued to learn that the president and I have the same favorite new TV series: Showtime’s spectacular “Homeland,” set right here in the capital.

The season finale is tonight, and finales of addictive shows can be tricky and disappointing. However it ends, though, they should dispense with the Best-Actors-in-a-Drama contest and just ship the Emmys to Claire Danes and Damian Lewis.

“Homeland” is about an American Marine coming back from Iraq to a welter of problems, a subject with special resonance for the president and America this past week. A bipolar C.I.A. agent warns her skeptical bosses that the Marine, held in Iraq as a P.O.W. for eight years and now returning as a hero, could be a terrorist.
(December 18, 2011)

From the Archives

Timeless Tosh from Current Wisdoms Past
(February 1992)

Parade
From the distinguished James Michener, the case for slavery:

The best money I have spent in my life was not that used to make me either happier or more comfortable, but the taxes I have paid to the various governments under which I have lived. In general, governments have spent their share of my money more wisely and with better results than I have spent my own funds, and one aspect of my life about which I am most ashamed is that I spent most of a decade living in three states that had no state income tax—Texas, Florida, and Alaska—and the deficiencies that the first two suffered because of that lack were evident daily. I like states like New York, Massachusetts, and California, which do tax and spend their income wisely.
(November 24, 1991)

Newhall Signal & Saugus Enterprise
Still more evidence for the end of history:

Public Notice
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

…The application of Deborah Anne Ziegler for change of name(s) having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that Deborah Anne Ziegler has filed an application proposing that the name(s) be changed to Euphrasia Lavette Alzena Guri Scientia Ventura Ikuru Alvera Ganbatte Gelasia Curvilinearjky….
(August 9, 1991)