This is an official blog holiday. Steve and the boys have gone up to Inwood Park in Manhattan to go for a bike ride, and I just want to read all day with short breaks to grill food. I'm going to post links to interesting things that I've read, but no longish blog posts.
David Carr writes a long defense of David Weigel and critique of DC culture. "Regardless of how much blather you hear about the two parties bickering
in Washington, the Beltway is really a monoculture that accommodates
the two poles of a debate but very little in between." Weigel appears to have landed on his feet with a gig at MSNBC.
Jeremiah Moss has a delightful op-ed piece about trying to track down the location of the diner in Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" painting. Yet, Hopper's best paintings weren't of Manhattan landscapes. They were of Nyack and the Hudson Valley. If you're in the area, check out Hopper House in Nyack. If you are in an arty mood, check out the slide show of Norman Rockwell's art.
Fascinating article on how companies are evading the ban on earmarks. I need a really good book on political corruption. Any suggestions?
I need to google a recipe for hanger steak on the grill. Back later. Maybe.
Apt. 11d 
“I need a really good book on political corruption. Any suggestions?”
The Last Hayride by John Maginnis. All the King’s Men, I think, though they will probably revoke my Louisiana citizenship when I tell everyone that I haven’t read it. Southern Politics in State and Nation, by V.O. Key. Huey Long’s Louisiana Hayride by Harnett Kane. Huey Long by T. Harry Williams. Are you sensing a theme?
I’m told that Williams skipped lightly over certain topics because they were still too dangerous to write about openly in late-1970s Louisiana.
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Blake Gopnik clearly has it in for Rockwell: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/01/AR2010070107266.html I think you learn more about Gopnik’s hobby horses than about Rockwell, but take a look.
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