Do celebrities deserve their own Kaddish?

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Joseph Kugelmass' thoughtful response to my Whitney Houston post is instructive: Most celebrity deaths are not emotional events for me. I cared a lot more about Amy Winehouse’s death than I do about Whitney Houston’s death, for two simple reasons. I like a lot of Amy...

Against Authenticity

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This theme has certainly cropped up here at LGM from time to time, generally with reference to aesthetic affairs. It applies to politics, too, as this excellent post from Rich.

What Would AMK Do?

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With respect to how Kennedy is likely to rule on the Prop 8 case, a few additional points. First, in response to Murc here, I should make it clear what I'm not arguing, namely that Reinhardt's opinion will somehow be able cleverly manipulate Kennedy into supporting...

In re Santorum

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I confess to having paid almost no attention to the GOP "race," in part because my two favorite prognosticators of such things have been saying for quite some time that.

Whitney Houston, Again

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(Since everyone's complaining about Rob's Whitney Houston post, I thought I'd write a proper one.) Whitney Houston burst onto the music scene in 1985 with her self-titled LP which had.

Birther Precedents

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I was doing some rather pointless research on Chester A. Arthur this morning. On his Wikipedia page, I found this: William Arthur's frequent moves would later form the basis for accusations that Chester Arthur was not a native-born citizen of the United States. After Arthur was...
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