Brief blogging hiatus hiatus

As you may have guessed from my lack of posting, tax season is kicking my tail, so blogging will be light for  awhile. I do have a few things I want to hit on.

I'm disappointed in NRO for bothering with this article:

Like a great many New York Times readers who cook, or not, I often scan the Wednesday Dining section for useful recipes and interesting restaurant reviews. Imagine my surprise to find that this week’s major review — on the section’s front page, no less, is of a steakhouse located in a strip club. So, right off you know that the point of the review is an exercise in humor and titillation, and not an evaluation of the quality and value of the steak or the dining experience. But wait — T&A with your bourbon and beef is just so old hat. So some clever editor must have thought it would be a whole new thing to send the Times’s very “out” gay restaurant critic, Frank Bruni to write about the meat at the Penthouse club. This is an entire article about how bad a NYT article about a steakhouse inside a strip club is. If someone knows what the point of this is, let me know because I'm at a loss. (I can see a brief blurb, but the sheer size of this nonsense is disturbing. For a couple of days lots of news outlets were running a story about how some of Barack IBM's relatives may have owned slaves. SO WHAT?  I find this a) totally unsurprising and b) totally irrelevant. No one should pay for the sins (or benefit from greatness) of their fathers.  If you want to know what kind of man Obama is, this won't help you.