No Rest About 18 months ago, we got a ride on a turbo-charged train. After years of “fairly routine” incidents in the Middle East, Hamas forced things. Israel fights a seven-front war, is winning, and now has had an eighth front forced on it: the Israeli judiciary. We forget that in the months before Oct. […]

Some Spine is Nice Back when it was funny—that is to say, the first five years—Saturday Night Live was host to a very funny skit from Gilda Radner and Bill Murry. They played high school nerd sweethearts, Todd and Lisa. It was all leisure suits and big hair, and the cast members’ hilarious exchanges and […]