RightTurn, I'm showing my age, and it was long ago, but Joe Jackson's first two discs were superb; it was the time of good FM Radio in NYC (WNEW), Elvis Costello and the Attractions, etc.  That Jackson could plummet from Look Sharp to Stepping out in three or four years was dreadful!  Joe Jackson on that Shatner Disc (Ben Folds produced) was like a time-warp back to 1979--superb.

RightTurn, "terrifying"? It's better than the original, especially with Joe Jackson sounding like 1979 Joe Jackson!

Astonishing that no one on this Podcast could recognize a KNISH on the streets of NYC? 

EThompson,  I think your math is off by 10 years.

Cool post; cool concept; meh execution. Especially since I'm pretty sure the real song is about a space disaster.

Whoever picked the Pulp song, thanks for the intro to a band I don't know (except via Shatner's cover of Common People).  The song is about as close as one can come to a tribute to Bowie without feeling like a ripoff.

Also, thank you for the hearing testimony excerpt.  This scary movie I feel I'm living in, All The President's Sycophants, keeps getting worse and more scary.

Is JPod really appearing at JCC in Manhattan on Erev Shavot?  I can't find any details anywhere...

Not GLoPodcast?

In in West Nyack, NY every few weeks because my mom lives nearby. Mr. Podhoretz, do you wear a large or extra-large sweatshirt? So Tuesday nice at the JCC? I look forward!

I read a year or two back that New York State actually had the most natural gas potential of any place in the world (for the square mileage in qustion).  Can anyone confirm this?  Wondering if cheap natural gas will make opening up NY more likely or less likely; will the ubiquity and lack of damage (elsewhere in the country, including just south in PA) put more pressure on NY, or less because the price of NG will be so low...?

Luozi, if memory served, we wound up watching the show on DVD; this was several years ago.  I found the show's "humor" to be utterly predictable and unoriginal.

"Unoriginal and predictable" is how I describe most of the "comedy" I see on TV.  In fact I don't think I've laughed at anything on TV in over a decade.

I just don't get what passes as funny on TV, or in most films.  Then again, I stopped watching tv (don't own one; I wind up watching elsewhere, usually due to social pressure) about the time that Seinfeld was cancelled (and at that point, even it was no longer very funny).

I broke up with a woman with the last straw, the signal of incompatibility being Big Bang Theory.  I must be a horrible person.

The problem with the idea for a new CrossFire is that calling BS on liberalism requires more time than attacking conservatism does.  So, unless a certain amount of time is spent debating issues, liberalism is never vetted, while conservatism can be made to look "mean."

Newt is, I suppose, as good as it gets to in putting liberals in their place.

I would go farther (or further) re "the end" of this war.  I don't think there will be an end, ever.  There will be periodic mayhem, and we will just accept it as "normal."

Re Mr. Lileks' weather, I just checked this, and Minneapolis is about as far north as Montreal, so no wonder you got that kind of weather; it's kind of assumption of risk.

Can someone explain to me why we don't assume that if the NorKs have nuclear weapons, Iran hasn't bought them already?  I mean, why all the focus on Iran home-brewing nukes?  Iran has some money, and the NorKs need money...

Duane Oyen, Prager's argument is the only one that makes sense with a secular government.  In any case, it's moot because gay marriage is a fait accompli; a subset of conservative's FAIL to articulate conservatism (aka sanity).