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Us framing types are fond of saying that there are many conceptual structures missing from public discourse, and that liberals would have an easier time of things if those ideas were more prevalent. A concept I'd like to hear more of is the dollar auction. A dollar auction is a …

First I read Molly Ivins' remarkably candid apology:

CROW EATEN HERE: This is a horror. In a column written June 28, I asserted that more Iraqis (civilians) had now been killed in this war than had been killed by Saddam Hussein over his 24-year rule. WRONG. Really, really wrong.

It …

I've got a theory that accounts for the pattern John Tierney notices in a recent Times column. The column complains about dumb dads on TV:

Where did we fathers go wrong? We spend twice as much time with our kids as we did two decades ago, but on television we're …