UPDATED: You mean phoning your column in is a bad thing? Uh-oh.

Bill Kristol: Currently between projects.

UPDATE: Late-breaking comment from the fan club. Kristol "is easily among the most intelligent, creative, and articulate conservative voices in America—a fact, upon which I would be willing to bet a large sum of money, is [sic] what troubled the Times," writes Peter Wehner, not at all incomprehensibly, at The Corner. "The good news is that Bill Kristol’s stock is in much better shape and higher standing that [sic] is the Times."