While History Never Repeats Itself, Political Patterns

Veteran Print Editors And Reporters At Places Like The 'times' And 'the New Yorker' Manage To Feed And Clothe Their Families Without Costing Their Companies A Million Bucks A Month, And They Produce A Great Deal More Valuable Reporting And Analysis Than The Network News Stars Do.

More And More, Democrats Are Starting To Worry They That They Have A More Um, Colorful Version Of Jimmy Carter On Their Hands. Obama Acts Cool As A Proverbial Cucumber But That Awful '70s Show Seems Frightfully Close To A Rerun.

So Was It A Political Mistake For Obama To Put So Many Eggs In The Health-care-reform Basket? Well, A Negative Decision From The Supreme Court Will Certainly Make It Appear So.

Apple Is A Wonderful Company For Its Customers And Investors. So, Too, Pixar. (next, Not So Much...) But Apple Is Also An Engine Of Misery For Its Subcontracted Chinese Workers.

Certainly There Are Worse Sins Than Doing Everything Possible To Make Your Presidency Matter.