It’s proof of Lileks’ much lauded prose gifts that he manages to pull this off. The main section is lampooning the snobbery of urbanites (New York elites in particular)… but, of course, what could possibly be snobbier or a stronger implicit claim of intellectual superiority than to purport to have seen through a whole class […]

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Duncan “Atrios” Black and Peter Sarsgaard. Is this just me? Maybe it’s just that they both do the same eye-narrowing thing in intense-mode. I think the resemblance is more pronounced in some scenes from Shattered Glass.

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Matt Yglesias has a post up on the recent New York Times Magazine cover story on political bloggers, in which he makes a slight variant of a point he’s made before about distinguishing between blogs and other media. I more or less agree with the version he’s advanced elsewhere: that it can be confusing to […]

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So, last week I ended up breaking (though, as we’ll see, maybe that’s the wrong word) a story over on Hit and Run that required me to make a judgement call about when I had enough corroboration for a charge to responsibly repeat it. Through the miracle of IM, I soon had what I thought […]

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The PS122 panel on blogging and politics I participated in during the RNC was apparently filmed for a local public access channel, the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. They’ll be airing it again on Tuesday, October 5, at 6pm and on Sunday, October 10, at 10pm. It’s channel 34 if you’re in New York, or you can […]

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Gene Healy has a fantastic piece on why he’s come to love D.C., despite being opposed to just about everything the town stands for. After two years in the Swamp, the first few months of which were spent wondering what the hell I was thinking when I left Manhattan, the city’s grown on me too, […]

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So Sci-Fi was airing all of the Indiana Jones movies this weekend, and I was reminded that Last Crusade is still the best of the bunch. I was also reminded of a curious exchange I’d always wondered about. About half an hour from the end, Indy and his father Henry are trying to rescue their […]

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So, I’m not quite tinfoil-hat enough yet to buy the “Rove planted ’em!” theory of these memos, but man is this turning into a windfall for Bush. The story about his National Guard service—which I don’t care about, but presumably weakens the whole “man of character” image for those who think he’s got any—turns out […]

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I’m sinking to ridiculous levels of pedantry here, but I think Brian Weatherson’s mistaken to say that (many of) the blogospheric memo-debunkers aren’t Gettier cases—instances of “justified true belief” that don’t count as knowledge because of some issue with the way the justification links up with the truth of the belief. The relevant belief was […]

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I’m cross posting this Hit and Run entry because I think it’s just weird that most of the media accounts of Dick Cheney’s “scare tactics” are just flat reading him wrong, and in a way that, when you look at the whole transcript, is fairly obvious.

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