That's one of the insights offered by Captain Ed Morissey in his review of It's a Wonderful Life, which as The Anchoress notes in a fine musing of her own, is worth reading in full.
There is much to chew on there, and also in Joseph Bottom's' [...]
Other people are doing a fine job of covering "ClimateGate" in detail (Senator Boxer's attempt to rebrand it as something else is almost disarmingly inept). I found good stuff at Watts Up With That, Reason magazine (in an essay by Ron Bailey),' [...] It's a great Hank Williams song. My favorite version is by the Notting Hillbillies, but that's because Mark Knopfler was in the Notting Hillbillies. He plays here with Tom Jones on the vocal, and that pairing works wonderfully, too.
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Gerard at American Digest brought this tweet to my attention, and it strikes home as much for its perceptive analysis as for its pith.