[Darkwolf377]

The nonfiction books of the year will be Rick Brookhiser's "What the Founders Would Do" and Terry Teachout's biography of Louis Armstrong.

These columns always include a "serious" book mention, and a "Hey, I'm down with the pop culture" book mention.

Noonan can be good, sometimes, but this one was written on autopilot.

[TChad]

Peggy must be writing another book.

[presidio9]

Switch back to regular coffee please Peggy.

[ClearCase_guy]

Peggy has been going seriously downhill for about a year. Truly, in all of 2005, I don't think I read anything she wrote that didn't make me ask "What happened to Peggy?"

[Lesforlife]

What about the starvation murder of a disabled
woman whose smiling gaze at her devoted mother
should have melted even the most hardened hearts?

Peggy usually highlights something with great
moral gravitas. This list is missing that element, IMO.

[KC_Conspirator]

But this time the political response, on the ground and in Washington, was not moving and rousing but inadequate and embarrassing. The fallout continues.

Oh I totally disagree with this. Only in Washington where democrats want to hang it over Bush's head and boot lickers like Ed Rollins who practically apologized for being a GOP "consultant" does this work.

democrats think they can actually run on Katrina in 2006. I bet the only person who goes down is Blanco for the poor response, because it was her fault. Nagin will go down possibly if they can't find enough fraudulent voters in the 9th ward.

The biggest unreported story of the year is Able Danger.