I am late on this, as usual...

But what a vicious graff from George Packer on Bill Kristol:

It's not just that he was fundamentally wrong at least every other week throughout the year (misattributing a quote in his first column, counting Clinton out after Iowa, placing Obama at a Jeremiah Wright sermon that Obama didn't attend, predicting the imminent return of a McCain adviser named Mike Murphy who ended up staying off the campaign, all but predicting a McCain victory, sort of predicting that McCain would oppose the bailout, praising McCain's "suspension" of his campaign as a smart move, preferring fake populism to professional excellence and Joe the Plumber to Horace the Poet, urging Ayers-Wright attack tactics as the way for McCain to win, basically telling McCain to ignore all the advice Kristol had given him throughout the year, but above all, vouching again and again and again, privately and publicly, for Palin as an excellent Vice-Presidential choice). What the hell--it was an unpredictable year.

And the Lord said let there be hyperlinks. The beauty of the web is that none of us can hide, these days. The more successful you become, the more people are watching. As for Kristol himself, I don't much care whether the Times replaces him. I love the paper, but I'd rather take a daily jaunt through the blogs than read their columnists. Blogs are just so much more alive.