Even the New York Times can do something right now and then

For instance, firing neocon fool Bill “Wrong About Everything” Kristol and hiring Ross Douthat, whose latest column begins:

Papal encyclicals are supposed to be written with one eye on two millenniums of Catholic teaching, and the other on eternity. But Americans, as a rule, have rather narrower horizons. As soon as the media have finished scanning a Vatican document for references to sex, the debate begins in earnest: Is it good for the left, or for the right? For Democrats, or for Republicans?

…and just keeps getting better.