Dr. Frank's What's-it

"If you agree with John Dewey (and Jurgen Habermas) that democracy depends on a series of institutional arrangements..."

Jesse Walker couldn't make it past the first sentence of this Eric Alterman column about how even if civility in public discourse is important, an exception should probably be made when it comes to Robert Novak.

"Such a lede," he writes, "serves as a wall, an impermeable barrier protecting the remainder of the article from our prying eyes..." Heh, as they say.