DADWAGON

Just catching up with this tidbit from last week. I don’t call this a mistake. I call it a trade.

The Olympics, as Christopher noted yesterday, are an excellent entertainment for those who like to almost-cry. But they’re also excellent material for those of us who like to watch journalists randomly try to explain things—things like U.S. downhill skier Bode Miller’s change of attitude. Once a real bad boy, he’s now, um, not so bad. [...]

The American public, and especially its elected representatives, continue to have a bias against city life. Our politicians consistently talk about Middle American values, privileging Main Street over any other street, and (in the case of certain vice-presidential candidates) the way in which our small towns grow good people. (Never mind who she was quoting, [...]