another weblog

I’m guessing the original pitch was something like “Think Braveheart, but with Wooly Mammoths!”

I’ll save you the trouble. Here’s the best parts:

Because I have nothing original to say, but I am compelled to start writing here at least semi-regularly…

this sounds like great fun.

My favorite paragraph:

“We’ve had a few mutinies in the past,” Victor Navasky, the former publisher of The Nation, who has been on all 10 Nation cruises, told me. “Like the year Christopher Hitchens, at a morning panel, plunked a bottle of whiskey down on the table and made a joke about Princess Di that some passengers thought was sexist. So the passengers organized a women’s caucus to redress the gender imbalance on the panels.”

Only liberals mutiny by organizing a caucus…

Thanks J.