Sunday, March 19

All the Best:

EYMAN on ... the Art of Criticism (PBPost).

McEVOY on ... 50 years of the Uncle Milton Ant Farm (PBPost).

PITTS Jr. on ... the Real Costs of Staying Silent. (Miami Herald).
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Regarding that last one, I'd like to compare and contrast with this "piece of work", links omitted:

WHAT IF THEY HELD ANTIWAR PROTESTS AND NOBODY CAME? Gateway Pundit says that's pretty much what happened at events meant to protest the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion. Update: ATC says that those who showed up seemed less anti-war than anti-American and anti-Bush. You don't say.

Though I might not agree politically with Sen. Feingold's latest maneuver (better to build consensus and move forward as a group), Mr. Pitts hits the point dead-on: eyes wide open, long-range view, America is going to pay and pay for our follies. The Boomers will be long underground or turned to dust before the final bill from this administraton is settled.

Mr. Reynolds has a "book" out. He's known online as the Instapundit, and I think his work is about as nutritious as a sugarcake. Though he is a law professor, analysis is not his specialty. He just jumped in the online game early. He "feeds" other sites by linking to them, and unless they take care to keep their independence, it's kind of like a big circle jerk of mutual appreciation. That's the opposite of speaking out truthfully, a step beyond staying silent.

Mr. Pitts, by contrast, turns in his own work, original columns that try to analyze facts and measure consequences on the ground. He has a Pulitzer, but more importantly his children will have reason to hold their heads high in years to come. His work will live.

The "Instapundit", though, is killing us softly; his "work" is soft and creamy inside. Everybody knows that sugar disintegrates to nothing but a sticky mess that later, somebody has to wipe up. Anti-American ... indeed.