Pundits at Sea, A Modest Proposal
In this festive season of health care reform, global warming debate, Obama-ridiculing, and Palin-watching, pundits constitute a growing threat to public decency, democracy, the economy, world peace, and my mental health. This problem has a solution: Assemble the newspaper columnists, cable news talking heads, radio talk show hosts, bloggers, and their ilk — all of them — and hold them incommunicado in a location from which they can’t escape. Maybe “assemble” isn’t the right word. “Rendition” is closer to my meaning. If it’s good enough for terrorists, after all, it should be good enough for Charles Krauthammer. Where to put them? A maximum security prison might suffice, but the Thomson Correctional Facility in Illinois will likely be filled with Guantanamo Bay inmates. Alcatraz is too close to civilization. Besides, prison seems a cruel and unusual measure, even for the likes of George Will. So, what to do? I propose chartering the Oasis of the Seas, the world’s newest and larges