Having difficulty working up a response to the latest piece of wisdom from Bill Kristol -- he's so profoundly wrong it's hard to know where to start.

In the meantime, a nice write-up of the MLA Poetry Extravaganza Part I (Wednesday Night at the Four Seasons) at Chris Murray's Tex Files (see her December 29 entry). And a nice round of photos by Kap.

My big score at the MLA Book Exhibit was a copy of Ulla Dydo's Gertrude Stein The Language That Rises for five bucks. Bought two, gave one to Alan Golding.