Achenblog - The Washington Post's Joel Achenbach on whatever strikes his fancy - March 1, 2009

The Robin Hood Budget

Now I'm worried about the rich. This is a huge turnaround. As you know, resenting the rich has been my major hobby for years. it gives me something around which to organize my day, spiritually. But I now see...

Watching Mercury Rise

I'm giving up on watching the stock market. I'm watching the thermometer for the next few days. I'm atwitter (and fyi, I was atwitter before Twitter was cool) about the springlike temps allegedly blowing into town this weekend, heralding...

A Mixed-Up Economy

My job is to keep everyone calm. We have nothing to fear but fear itself, plus asteroid impacts, mutant airborne Ebola, runaway robotic sentience, and the Earth being transformed by collider-generated strangelets into an undifferentiated gray goo (to paraphrase FDR)....

Rush Limbaugh vs. David Brooks

What a splash Rush Limbaugh made with that speech Saturday. I thought it was, at a purely technical level, rambling, sloppy, self-indulgent, demagogic and anachronistic, but it is conceivable that I was not his target audience. The crowd went...

Obama Should Try Public School

The president thinks we're wimps here in the nation's capital because we shut everything down with the first flake of snow. And there's an element of truth to that: We sometimes have paralytic flurries. But here's a thought: Maybe...

Conservatives in the Wilderness

[My story on CPAC in today's paper.] Same old hotel on the park, same ballrooms, same long lines down the corridor to hear the big-name speakers, but otherwise the landscape looks radically different for this year's Conservative Political Action...