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...
According to the always reliable John J. Miller, "[a] study says that black students take easier courses than white students at Duke University." He offers the following as his pull-quote: Although.
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.
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...
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.
The New York Times' Disunion series continues to be absolutely fantastic, even if it doesn't get the publicity it did when the series started. And I've been reading Kevin Levin's.
You know the dilemma, which we may call the Polanski Problem -- what do you do when you find out that a gifted artist who has done a lot of a great work you admire is a terrible person? My answer, in general, is to not...
This post serves as introduction for a new series of posts: Seapower in Culture. Inspired in part by Alyssa Rosenberg's work at the Center for American Progress, but also by a.
(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.
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...
This ain't good: A few years ago, hog farmers throughout the Midwest noticed foam building on top of their manure pits. Soon after, barns began exploding, killing thousands of hogs.
Read about the new crime wave sweeping America's tubas: BELL, Calif. — When thieves broke into the high school music room here this week, they cut through the bolts on.