Super-Nova Tuesday
Few are the pundits who find any virtue in the evolving 2008 schedule for the primaries and caucuses by which the presidential candidates of the two major political parties are chosen. Things were bad enough when, only recently, February 5, 2008, was dubbed "Tsunami Tuesday" or "Super Duper Tuesday," thanks to the scheduling of primaries by nearly all the powerhouse states on that day. Well, maybe not all. Today comes word from the great State of South Carolina that it will move its Republican primary up to January 19, which will likely to push Iowa to conduct its caucuses sometime around Christmas. The most eloquent explanation of this extreme climate change (written before these latest developments) that you will ever read, mes amis , is this April piece, " Pileup ," by The New Yorker 's Hendrik Hertzberg . After noting that the "Pileup" plan, however horrid, was born of a laudable impulse--that of wanting the contest in one's home...