A few questions, inspired by my tape deck-less journey across America. . .Is it shameful, when in South Dakota, to sit through a "three spot" of Journey in order to reach "three spots" of AC/DC and the Who?Why does Christian music suck so bad? It's more...
Tim Burke has a thoughtful and fascinating post up about the contradictions of liberal agency with respect to advertising, a puzzle I've occasionally thought about devoting some time to thinking.
For people who don't believe in nanny-state regulation of consensual sexuality in all its forms, there can only be one priority: get Republicans out of office. Take the nominally "pro-choice".
I'm not sure that I agree with Norbizness' claim that this list (1, 2) reflects East Coast Bias really holds water. While this has certainly historically been the case (although most of the marginal new York players, like Kelly, Rizutto, and Jackson were because of the...
Sitting Bull had the good sense to wipe out Custer and the Seventh Cavalry just off of I-90, so I stopped and took a few pictures.Earlier this summer I spoke.
Going to Mount Rushmore cost me $8, about an hour, and a fair amount of aggravation, but, hey, when am I going to be in South Dakota again?It occured to.
Timothy Burke is upset that Amanda Marcotte called arguments made by people like Benjamin Wittes that pro-choicers should "let go" of Roe "horseshit." Whether or not one likes Amanda's choice of words, however, I think she certainly has the better of the argument. Burke's post does...
I have been remiss in noting that, while I was on vacation, Bill Haltom and Michael McCann's book Distorting the Law won APSA's Pritchett Award for the best book published.
in my travels thus far:1. There are many among us who do not understand that driving in the blind spot of a U-Haul truck is poor policy. Idiots.2. The booze.
Using Brad Delong's frustration with the quality of Jared Diamond critics as a jumping off point, Henry at Crooked Timber considers the odd implications of the arguments of Savage Minds blogger Ozma--specifically, that Diamond's thesis implies a "do-nothing" form of anti-racism:it’s quite clear that if one...
Why does Charles Krauthammer think terrorists are a stupid as he is? Like him, I wish they were. But that doesn't make it so.
I agree with Daniel Gross and Matt; I've never really understood why payola should be illegal. It doesn't really make sense that this particular form of marketing music to radio,.