Apres Thanksgiving

Good morning and happy post-Thanksgiving. A few new items...

• It's not quite as popular as baseball, but home-schooling is becoming an American pastime. The reason, beside the religious-nut element? public schools are too much like camp. See "Revenge of the Home-Schoolers..."
  

• Robert Novak is king of that paradox of the Washington punditocracy: terrifically informed yet analytically dim and intellectually corrupt, because drunk on that Molotov cocktail of America-First presumption: ideology and nationalistic chauvinism. See "Robert Novak, Caudillo's Knave..."
  

• From Candide's Notebooks contributor Ohdave, an essay on Ian McEwan's "Saturday," one of the better novels of the post 9/11 era. See "When Violence Crashes the Party..."

As always, plenty more in Candide's Daily Journal... Thanks for visiting.pt