NOT GOING TO MAKE IT WITH ANYONE. Yesterday I caught snippets of Glenn Beck's program, which was an entire hour devoted to complaining about Maoists in the Obama administration. Reason's Nick Gillespie has perhaps the most trenchant observation about the program.

I admit it. I want my reality back. I don't know when it went missing. But I want it back.

Take heart. An affirmative-action presidency succeeds a legacy presidency that succeeded a frivolous presidency. The Republic is more resilient than that.