While I would not go as far as Jon Savage, quoted in the BBC piece as saying "Without Malcolm McLaren there would not have been any British punk", it is indisputable that McLaren had a massive influence in redefining music.
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In attempting to defend the indefensible, John Guardino says that picking on Bob McDonnell's celebration of pro-slavery treason is unfair because many Confederate soldiers were not personally motivated by slavery. .
I'm really looking forward to flying out of Denver later this morning, after last night's latest outbreak of rampant hysteria and stupidity. Because this guy is a diplomat he isn't.
except when it's private. Shorter NYT: the Chairman of the prestigious country club located in Georgia that somehow still doesn't admit women in the year 2010 rebuked some guy for disrespecting women rather than being a role model for our children and grandchildren. Slightly longer:...
Consider these images the inevitable footnotes to Jill's post at Feministe: (more…)
Shorter Robert Samuelson: Anyone who disagrees with my right-wing views on fiscal policy is irrational. And you're especially crazy if you think that there are any moral issues involved in.
Coates: A lot of you have e-mailed me to note that Virginia governor Bob McDonnell has decided to honor those who fought to preserve, and extend, white supremacy. I don't really have much to say. The GOP is, effectively, the party of willfully unlettered Utopians. It is the...
Reading this definitely takes me back to my Seattle days at the turn of the last decade, when one spoke and read from many people who seemed willfully blind to.
As the election has now been called, expect a lot of such breathless pieces describing the fact that the British "electoral system" could produce a result where one party receives.
East: 1. NYY 2. BOS (*) 3. TB 4. BAL 5. TOR I don't like it either, but let's start here: the Yankees were the best team in baseball last year, and got younger in the OF and added an outstanding starter basically in exchange...
It seems very likely that yesterday's disaster in West Virginia was at least in part the result of corporate negligence: For at least six of the past 10 years, federal.
A poorly kept secret: tomorrow morning Gordon Brown will go to the Queen and do that thing he has to do in order to dissolve Parliament and have an election..