BOY, YOU LEAVE THOSE GUYS UNSUPERVISED FOR A MINUTE. . . . I took a couple of hours off to go see my daughter’s elementary school spring program (she looked very cute, twirling red-white-and-blue streamers and singing You’re a Grand Old Flag) and when I get back I find that Jonah Goldberg thinks I’m complaining about Mickey Kaus’s move to Slate. Huh? I’m fine with it. My labeling it the “Great Kausfiles Sellout” was entirely in mockery of those who I figured would seriously accuse him of selling out. Yet another case where what I thought was obvious tongue-in-cheekery wasn’t. Just proves that what one of my colleagues says about teaching applies everywhere else: “It’s impossible to be too obvious.”

No Boeing for you, Slim-Jim boy!