First God created pepper-jack cheese, hard pretzels, and beer. And he said, "These are good." But God decided that others should appreciate his creations so he created the universe and then Earth and man and the light with which man could eventually see the pepper-jack cheese and beer. Later man discovered fire….animal husbandry….then came the Peloponnesian Wars….crop rotation….dwarf tossing….and National Review….
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Jonah Goldberg is editor-at-large of National Review Online for which he writes his thrice-weekly column "The Goldberg File" and a contributing editor to National Review. Goldberg also writes a nationally syndicated column distributed by Tribune Media Services, which appears often such newspapers as the Kansas City Star, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Times, the Orlando Sentinel, San Francisco Chronicle, the Manchester Union Leader, and others. He also writes a regular media criticism column for The American Enterprise magazine. Mr. Goldberg was a contributing editor and columnist for the now-defunct Brill's Content.