Well, not really. I'm embarking on a family vacation for a few days. I'll be back Wednesday.

In the meantime, several of my colleagues, including Mike Crowley, Michelle Cottle, Noam Scheiber, and John Judis will be chipping in. And Amanda Silverman, the brains behind this operation, will be posting a lot of the sort of material that you all thought I've been coming up with.

See you Wednesday.

--Mark Leibovich on Charlie Crist (who I say is doomed, doomed, at least as a Republican.)

--Sarah Palin's emails

I've been told that there's this hot new mode of journalism known as "blogging," which comes from the word "blog," which is short for "weblog." I have decided to get ahead of this emerging trend by starting a blog of my own.

• Drinking Cokes With One of the Janjaweed’s Most Notorious Mass-Murderers, by Rebecca Hamilton
• So Much Gasbaggery, So Little Time: Obama’s Strange Obsession With Summits, by Jason Zengerle
• Continue reading "Today At TNR (December 3, 2009)"

• Karzai's Fall: How Did a Man Once Hailed as the Savior of Afghanistan Become Its Scourge? by Jean MacKenzie
• From Thomas Paine to Glenn Beck: The Perversion of 'Common Sense' in American Politics by Damon Linker
• Palinology 101?

• The Next Paris Hilton: Why Sarah Palin Isn’t Going Away Any Time Soon by Jason Zengerle
• How the Obama Administration Is Dangerously Misreading the Recession by John B.

• Ending our Age of Suffering: A Plan to Stop Genocide Once and For All, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
• Kauffmann: Two Great Films About Adulterers, by Stanley Kauffmann
• The Case Against Government Transparency, by Law

• The GOP No Longer Represents Interest Groups--Rather, It Has Become One, by The Editors
• 'The Informant!' Is the Funniest Movie in Five Years Without a Potty Joke, by Christopher Orr
• Washington Diarist: Burke is Bac