I wonder of David Frum watches Jon Stewart?

OK. Here is Jon Stewart on "The first Great Depression."



Now actually this is quite ahistorical - as you would expect from an American. History in America is what happened last week, and last year never happened. But the renown British historian Erick Hobsbawm points out in his excellent book "The Age of Empire" that the first Great Depression occurred between 1873 and the mid 1890's. Sine America was still an agricultural economy with relatively little international trade outside cotton, this has generally escaped notice in America. But by WW I America had entered international trade in a big way, besides which there are still people around from the 1930's who can argue the severity of the Depression of the 1930's, so the earlier one Great Depression gets no real press.

Still, who am I to actually argue with the great comedian Jon Stewart?

Besides, Stewart's follow up to the above video, Clusterf#@k to the Poor House - The Decabox, is really outstanding comedy.



One pundit on one screen isn't enough? Add another - and another - and another - and another - and...

Is the Decabox enough? Do we need even MORE pundits cluttering inhabiting our TV screen at once?

Please! Don't ask the unthinking TV "news" executives. This is another idea they don't need to hear. They won't think. They'll just try it!

They are TV executives, after all.