Being both a pretentious wanker and a Montreal chauvinist, I loves me some of the Arcade Fire, although I have occasionally expressed reservations about lyrics that can be pretentious even by my standards. After hearing them mashed up with "My Humps," however, such complaints shall not...
Amanda and iocaste save me the trouble of pestering people to excerpt yet another WSJ article, as they discuss today's cover story about hymen reconstruction, starting with an especially creepy.
It was only a matter of time before Jason Apuzzo, the Lenny Kravitz of right-wing Stalinist aesthetics, weighed in on Brokeback Mountain. And he doesn't disappoint; as TBogg notes, he.
Nominations for the 2005 Koufax Awards are up--make sure to send in your favorites. Pretty much every blog on the left (as well as, of course, many that aren't) should be nominated in a category or 4, so it won't be hard!
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There was a terrific article by Anna Wilde Mathews in Monday's Wall Street Journal about how an increasing number of medical journal articles are ghostwritten by drug company PR flacks..
Speaking of torture, Jim Henley has a quite brilliant post noting that the most common justifications for the Iraq war collapse for the same reason that the"ticking time bomb" argument justifying torture is abjectly useless:The features of the dorm bull session ethics symposium are perfect knowledge...
Last week, my new NL team traded for Tony Womack. They didn't give up anything of consequence, and the Yankees picked up part of Womack's salary. The downside is that.
I apologize in advance...Mickey is trying to correct the impression that he just doesn't like homosexuals:If a gay man, say, goes to see "Wuthering Heights," there is at least one.
There's an interesting discussion taking place about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson on the lawcourts listerv. Sanford Levinson brings up an interesting argument, which is that the general sense that the impeachment was unjustified was heavily influenced by "JFK"'s Profiles in Courage, which basically put forward...
The Plank has an amusing account of Andrew Sullivan embarrassing Men in Black clown Mark Levin as the latter demands evidence and then goes on to describe the proffered evidence.
As a follow-up to my post about Maye and the blogosphere, Angelica suggests some courses of action. And according to Radley Balko the blog divisions of CBS and the National.