Fanfare for the Common Wanker

I know whenever I want to read about the perspective of the blue-collar worker, the first person I think of is George Will.

What had been under FDR a celebration of America and the values of its working people has become a doctrine of condescension toward those people and the supposedly coarse and vulgar country that pleases them.

Ah, yes, George Will, the world's greatest and most consistent admirer of the New Deal Era. He's really Studs Terkel in a bow tie.

Coming up this Friday, Charles Krauthammer's touching piece singing the praises of Iranian foreign policy.