The hostage taker (and my commute) | Michael Tomasky

When you're on a bad run, you're on a bad run. One might have thought that a nut who has taken a hostage at the headquarters of the Discovery network in Silver Spring, Maryland might be from the right, because Discovery devotes lots of admirable programming to saving the environment and the whales and on and on. But no, he's a left-wing nut.

This is happening about a mile from my house, folks. The whole area has been evacuated. Could make getting home a bit tricky.

All right, I shouldn't make ...