chris i do like madonna along with your blogs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! otherwise you are pretty much on the mark !!!!!!!!!!!! chris remember noblesse oblige !!!!!!!!!!!!

President who couldn't keep zipper up: Kennedy/Clinton

Biggest nepotism: Kim Jung Sung/Caroline Kennedy

Biggest financial lie : we have world class risk management/
we have enough capital

Stupidest energy comment : oil is going to $200/bbl / peak oil

Biggest hedge fund lie: we have smart people/ we have Bernie Made-off

Biggest NYT lie : all the news fit to print / no editorial bias

Worst vice president : Nixon/Cheney

Crookiest NYC pol : Boss Tweed/ Charlie Rangel

Oddiest blonde musician : Courtney Love/ Britney Spears

Uplifting Remedy for Golden Years: Geritol/ Viagra

"Zeitgeist" is a tired 1980's clichè buzzword. Very Spy and VF of that era (though I admire the editor immensely.)

Kind of reductive - Rachel Maddow is "Sapphic"? Her being gay doesn't seem to have any bearing on why she's done well, or her job.

The reference points tossed off here seem sort of elderly, not quite with-it. The Internet moves at rapid speed, observing that Jolie likes to adopt , or Jen Aniston is cute is terrible.

Also: there are kids today who don't know what Napster was, it was that long ago.

New York senate candidate who has never held elective office, has a law degree from a prestigious law school, is an author, is devoted to children issues, has a famous last name, is closely related to a former Democratic president and is bigger than a bread box (I just threw that in): Hillary/Caroline

It felt odd that your sense of "now" and "then" changed from line to line. sometimes your "now" happened last week and other times it happened over 20 years ago. And then other times you referred to something as a "then" when it happened this year and other times when it was well over 40 years ago.

I'll take 'the number 6' for $200 ....

You are funny Buckley.

I must disagree. Christopher Walken is still the ultimate Weirdo Actor. He could eat Joaquin Phoenix for breakfast without blinking the bulging, staring, crazy eyes....

The important response to this article is to the use of the word "zeitgeist." This word has two "ei" combinations, neither of which comply with the rhyming spelling rule, "I" before "e," except after "c" or as sounded as "a" as in weigh."

There is no "c" and no "a" sound in zeitgeist. What is the point of memorizing spelling rules if words are allowed to ignore them?

Zeitgeist is a lawless word. Indeed, it does more, it flouts the laws of spelling--placing a thumb up to its nose and wiggling all of its other fingers at us. It is provocative--if you think about it. It is subversive to spelling good order and rationality.

Public officials once renamed whole people, even families, at Ellis Island if the pronunciation of their foreign names would vex Americans. Yet, we allow foreign words into our language without regard for the vexation their spelling might cause.

What kind of people are we?

New Zeitgeist is an oxymoron. In German, the word has more layers of meaning than the English translation, including the fact that Zeitgeist can only be observed for past events.
Dev

Mr. Buckley, please tell me you did NOT mis-spell "Rockefeller." What is the world coming to... Bucklay.

Really....idiotking....that's pretty good, i missed it.
Mr. Buckley...love it! As always....

as usual, i love everything you write!

Hot stuff, buddy. I hadn't kept up with your blog lately and it's just as good as ever. Super funny and ultraliterate.

Steve Kimball

Most readable current affairs satirist: Bernard Levin/Christopher Buckley.

Slippery, manipulative, opportunistic Democratic president interested only in self promotion............of you guy know.

Are you suggesting that Osama bin Laden is... a fiction?