Welcome to The Now

      Every ten-to-twenty years, someone (presumably older than 30) writes how the generation just entering their twenties are either promising-yet-terrifying or terrifying-yet-promising. Jezebel has a little more on this , but the way I see it there will always be some group complaining that the generation before screwed everything up and the generation coming up doesn't realize how good they have it.

Guess who their " Person of the Year " is? (Not that I disagree; I just wish they'd pick a specific person instead of a group. If they believed this all started with the actions of one particular person, why not use that person?)

...but it's kinda odd for Sen. John Kerry too skip being part of this story about our modern day Winter Soldiers .

The guy who (helped) kicked former Iraq strategist and comb-licker Paul Wolfowitz out of the World Bank has some parting shots .

Things have gotten so bad for President Bush, Joe Klein has turned on him : When Bush came to office--installed by the Supreme Court after receiving fewer votes than Al Gore--I speculated that the new President would have to govern in a bipartisan manner to be successful. He chose the opposite path, and his hyper-partisanship has proved to be a travesty of governance and a comprehensive failure. I've tried to be respectful of the man and the office, but the three defining sins of the Bush Administration--arrogance, incompetence, cynicism--are congenital: they're part of his personality. They're not likely to change. And it is increasingly difficult to imagine yet another two years of slow bleed with a leader so clearly unfit to lead. I'd say that the words that come after "I've tried to be respectful of the man and the office" pretty much reflect the sentiments of a majority of progressives, liberals and Democrats in America. Part of me is curious to see i...