Read Kausfiles or Die!

Mickey Kaus is always worth reading, but if you choose only one set of posts to read this year I'd recommend these. Wide-ranging, insightful, open-minded, witty: the usual Kaus. Plus it contains this similetic bon mot:

I've called Andrew Sullivan "excitable," but [Juan] Cole makes Sullivan look like Brian Lamb.

Not necessarily free-standingly funny, except when you consider that Brian Lamb is inherently hilarious. He's like a mustachioed man in drag that way. (And, I assume, in no other.) The ultimate straight-man of politics.