Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

Sunday, and the snow is getting shoveled... somehow. But the pundits still have a few minutes to pundate.

Frank Rich: Sorry, the snow won't get shoveled by itself. And millionaires don't just happen. Whether it's a movie game show or real life, if it's too good to be true, it isn't.

Tom Friedman: Americans need to save and Chinese need to spend. Good luck with that.

Nicholas Kristof: Liberals and secularists are tightwads about charity. At least conservatives give to churches. So, if you can afford it, do it. This year, people are hurting.

Daniel Howes:

There are no more cans to kick. This is a last stand for GM, the UAW and what's left of Chrysler, a final chance to prove there really are savvy, realistic leaders beneath the sheet metal and weak balance sheets. Or, they can prove the skeptics right, that "Detroit can't do it," that bankruptcy is the only hope of extracting value from companies that have routinely destroyed it and demanded more.

Andrew Wilson: I miss Margaret Thatcher. She would have personally torn down Detroit and rebuilt it as Zürich with her own hands. And she would not have worked up a sweat.

Mary Mitchell:

How do you put a civil rights icon like the Rev. Joseph Lowery at the tail end of an event that honors the nation's election of its first African-American president?

The only reason I can think of for Obama to give [Rick] Warren such an honor is that he is already thinking about re-election.

Juan Cole: On Rick Warren. [added]

The Arena: More on Warren.

Wesley Clark: "Actually, Democrats and the military can get along. Here's how."

WaPo: Well, we've fixed the looming pundit shortage as the old farts retire. Not only did the 18-29ers vote more sensibly, the 10th graders predicted more sensibly.

In Outlook's election-year battle of the pundits, we pitted old school against new.

At last we can say which school won.

The high school.

Grand Champion of the kumite is Montgomery Blair's 10th-grade communication arts program students and their teacher, Lansing Freeman. Congrats!