Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.

Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies.

We knew The Torture Question would be a timely subject.

Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century.

It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights.

Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.