Per aspera

Caroline Kennedy’s Political Romanticism

She says that Obama could be a president like her father. I assume that means that he’ll be overrated, not that he’ll bring us to the brink of nuclear war.

Ramesh Ponnuru at NRO. The guy’s an asshole, but in this case* funny is funny.

(via Matt Yglesias)

*The most important feature of this case being that it is located in what I assume is the sliver-thin overlap on the Venn diagram of our political ontologies.