Livin' In America

Steve Boriss asks why Rupert Murdoch would allow Bill Kristol to write for the New York Times. Let's turn that around, and ask why Andy Rosenthal of the New Yor Times would invite it. Maybe it's because Bill Kristol is a man Mr. Rosenthal respects intellectually and personally, and whose election season column will provide opposing views that Times readers will appreciate.

Sometimes a carrot is just a cigar, Dr. Freud.

Or, you know, something like that.