I had no idea what a luddite I've become in my music-listening practices until I saw this thread at Matthew Yglesias. All my music is in CD form (about 600 of them), and my computer contains no MP3s (until very recently, that was a necessary consequence...
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Via Tbogg, it seems that Tom Wolfe's new novel, These Kids Today: Committing Acts of Moral Suicide that Should Only Be Discussed by Reactionary Fops Who Did Their Best Writing During the Johnson.
Good lord. Kevin Drum is feeling guilty for being so audacious as to oppose handing the Arnold a PR coup that would gain his party seats locally and nationally, in exchange.
I suppose I should mention that we have been nominated for Koufaxes in the Most deserving of wider recognition and best group blog categories. Thanks to our nominators and readers. At the minimum, we expect to win a Villone...
Lindsay Beyerstein offers a recipe for the "Santorum Shot": chai tea concentrate, chartreuse, and vodka. Despite me general belief that there should be many fewer vodka-based drinks in the world,.
Prof. InstaHack thinks this point is so clever it's worth repeating twice: "...why are they "death squads?" I thought that people who did this sort of thing were called "insurgents," in.
Some troglodytic schmuck on NPR just minutes ago...."If we grant Al Qaeda members the protections accorded under the Geneva convention, then all any country or group has to do to get Geneva convention protections is to act like Al Qaeda."
Never one to turn down an opportunity to make a meaningless list, I'll take advantage of Matt Yglesias's bleg and name my favorite 80s movies. In the first edition of his Historical.
Yes, after giving rapturously positive reviews (admittedly, after only two episodes of the Season 1 DVD I received for Christmas, but Christ, how many years did they keep Arli$$ on?),.
I don't know how I missed this TCS parody from The Poorman. We owe Andrew Northrup a debt of gratitude. I stumbled onto this link via Ted Barlow, who is having some fun with Michael Crichton's descent into wingnuttery: There are fair criticisms to be made of...
So, thinks I, I'll do a little blogging of the hearings for Underminer of Law in General. Sure, I'm in Canada and hence without C-SPAN, but surely CNN will cover.
A score of military officials penning a letter pleading with civilian authorities to display some modicum of respect for human rights. Via Kleiman. And if you think it's odd that they're using.