His name is Chris, and he’s a colleague, one of my favorite people in

the world, and he’s absolutely the reason why I ever checked out NRO

or the Corner in the first place. The annoying thing about him is his

absurd love for “Big Trouble in Little China.” (Please don’t email

me, I won’t argue about a movie I couldn’t watch more than 40 minutes

of.) He thinks it’s the greatest, and he’s wrong, and he gets

argumentative. Annoyingly so. We have appointed an independent

counsel (a young lady on our writing staff) to watch BTILC and decide

once and for all whether it sucks or it’s cool (the Beavis and

Butthead scale of movie reviews.)

Meanwhile I have appointed Chris the Arbiter of What Rocks. We were

discussing music or maybe musicals and I ventured the opinion that

“Jesus Christ Superstar” rocks. Chris said no, and quickly positioned

himself as an authority in the matter. Upon further debate, and the

downloading and playing of tracks (instead of working) it quickly

became clear that Chris was right, JCS does not in fact rock. His

able leadership in the matter moved me to give him the official

position as Arbiter. I think he’s wrong about Queen (they don’t rock)

but other than that he is doing a good job.