And the Left has some of the best writers. My lunchtime reading was Ian Parker’s terrific article on bonobo chimps in the current (7/30) issue of The New Yorker. As well as being informative and PC-debunking (the bonobos are supposed to be the “nice” chimps–bisexual, communitarian, pacifistic, etc.–there is quite a cult), Parker is *funny*. Tramping through the Congo rain forest: “We stopped after a few minutes. I looked upward through binoculars and, not long afterward, removed the lens caps.” If you let your New Yorker subscription lapse, they come at you with more & more sensational offers, till you can’t refuse. I think I’m paying about 60 cents an issue, vs. newsstand price of $4.50. There’s enough nonpolitical stuff to make it worth reading, & the cartoons of course are great.