Blogaddict – don’t let on that you’ve already read the article they send. Instead send them one from the right (VDH or Steyn is always good!) and say I’ll read yours if you read mine. If this partisan vitriole stretches into the next 4 years I can actually see the utility of national “Book Clubs” of the sort that were widespread when I was growing up but instead of reading fiction everyone comes to discuss articles from opposite political sides. “Article clubs”! The wave of the future! Who needs fiction when reality is so darned fascinating!

Sorry Roger. Hope you don’t go out of business. Had been reading your blog for some time before I realized you wrote “Enemies a Love Story” – one of my favorite movies (yes seriously! Along with The Unbearable Lightness of Being). It is interesting that the star of your movie – Ron Silver – has come out so publicly in favor of Bush. Do you two talk politics much these days?