Garçon! More cognac! In a clean glass! Oh well. I’m not creative:

I was handed the Journal on my Saturday flight from New York to San Francisco on United Airlines. And the Harwood/Seib piece was so out of touch with the current zeitgeist that I found myself repeatedly checking the date at the top of the page to make sure the flight attendant hadn’t mistakenly given me a paper that someone had left on the plane a decade ago.

And why?

The piece starts off by rightly noting the public’s “hunger for change” and “major reforms.” But the authors then argue that the cause of this hunger is the fact that “the two parties have moved further apart on the ideological spectrum,” resulting in “party fatigue.”

Excuse me? The reason 82 percent of the public thinks the country is on the wrong track is because of “party fatigue”? This is beyond parody.

Indeed. As it was back in December 2007.

One question, though, Arianna: If what you say is true now, then did your Unity Pony turn out to be on back order? Like mine?

What? Put my cell on vibrate just because I’m in an airplane?! But it’s a Yes, we can! ring-tone! Everybody wants to hear it!