equalizer: Why the hate, baby, why the hate? I agree with Veritas regarding your summary on Huxley and Orwell. Interestingly, I just read Hitch’s book on Orwell (“Why Orwell Matters”) earlier this year. I haven’t read “Brave New World” in a while, but it definitely resonates as of late. You can find thousands of articles on Brit’s baby, her addictions, family problems and rehab, but try to find one well researched article on… well, anything and you’re SOL. I would agree with your assessment on Hitchens, but would also say that as a reformed Stalinist, he has a very rare point of view and his articles are a joy to read, simply based on how well they are written and reasoned. You’d be hard pressed to find another writer working in the English language with such a fluid command of it.

gandalf: I agree with you on GM. There is an excellent article in the Atlantic Monthly on the Chevy Volt (it’s in either this month’s issue or last month’s), and how GM is using it to remake their corporate culture and regain their footing in the marketplace. One of the things that really struck me was the sense of rage among the senior GM execs about how Toyota was wiping the floor with them, and that they were prepared to do anything, including overhauling the whole company, to beat Toyota. I felt a surge of admittedly jingoistic pride, but I wouldn’t take GM lightly, especially now that they’re in their “wounded bear” phase.

I would ask when/where was I bashing Obama? You might be thinking of another poster. I simply said that I thought he was a foreign policy dilettante, and lacked the requisite experience.

As far as the Latin goes: Nils illegitimus carborundum, as an old Jesuit teacher of mine used to say.