From the WSJ Opinion Archives
Tony & Tacky
SPAM! SPAM! SPAM!: Tuesday's Chicago Tribune carried a column reporting on a visit to the Spam Museum in Minnesota, a museum dedicated to the canned pork product produced by Hormel Foods. The tour includes a 15-minute film called "A Love Story," in which Spam enthusiasts offer their testimonials. On comes college student Jim Murphy, who has worn a Spam T-shirt every day for the past five years. "When I first started wearing Spam shirts," he says, "girls sort of thought I was a dork." The Trib notes that no women were interviewed for their reaction; Mr. Murphy's college went blessedly unnamed.
RIGHT REASON: "To make war on the progressive administrative state and to restore the principles of America's founding to their rightful and preeminent place in our national life": That's the mission statement of the Claremont Review of Books, whose current issue features a vigorous symposium on the war against terrorism with contributions from William F. Buckley Jr., Norman Podhoretz, Frank Gaffney and Angelo Codevilla. The issue also features, with its book reviews, a rendering of a proposed World Trade Center memorial by Elliott Banfield, the same man responsible for the magazine's handsome new look. Who says you can't tell a book by its cover?
