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Entries from March 2008

AT&Treason

March 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on AT&Treason

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Tags: Privacy and Surveillance · Random Cool Link

Feed Me, Seymour!

March 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Feed Me, Seymour!

Those of you who read this site via an RSS reader have presumably not been getting any of the posts I’ve put up since the redesign.  I just got around to redirecting the old feeds to the new location, but just in case, you may want to point your readers directly to here.

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Tags: Administrativa

Smearing Sam

March 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Hey, Matt? I’m looking back over what Noah Pollak has written about Samantha Power, and I’m just not seeing anything that can reasonably be interpreted as a claim that Power is an anti-Semite or “tainted by Jew hatred” or anything else like that. All I’m seeing is an argument that Power has some terrible ideas […]

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Tags: Journalism & the Media · War

Weaponized

March 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Weaponized

I knew before going into last night’s show that Cadence Weapon was a brilliant musician—and probably the smartest lyricist currently working in hip hop, so no surprises on that front. There were, however, some things I did not know: (1) CW is also an incredibly nice, approachable guy. He’s Canadian, so the odds were in […]

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Tags: Art & Culture · Washington, DC

Free at Last, Free at Last

March 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Free at Last, Free at Last

Lemme just second Tom Lee: Jailbreaking = teh awesome. Not sure why I didn’t do it earlier. If you’ve got an iPhone you haven’t unlocked yet, go here.

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Tags: Personal · Uncategorized

Weird Science

March 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Weird Science

China is so going to own us in a decade.

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Tags: Random Cool Link · Science

Watching for Watchmen

March 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Sweeeet.  The first in-costume stills from the upcoming Watchmen movie have been released.  Though as New York magazine notes vis a vis that Ozymandias outfit, the fake-muscles-with-nipples look has a bad track record. And yes, I realize Watchmen is probably completely unfilmable, and that trying to translate a classic work that makes such brilliant use […]

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Tags: Art & Culture

We Don’t Read Much, Do We?

March 6th, 2008 · 6 Comments

The latest chapter in the hilarious misadventures of Concerned Woman for America Matt Barber involves blowing a fuse over an Illinois high school’s addition of the Tony- and Pulitzer-award winning play Angels in America to their curriculum.  Though Barber avers that it “takes a lot” to shock him, he writes (emphasis mine): The book is […]

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Tags: Academia · Language and Literature · Law · Stupid Shit

Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That

March 5th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Glenn Reynolds: HMM: Rep. Ellison: Clinton Trying To Reap Benefit Of Obama-Muslim Smear. “I think that Barack Obama’ s Democratic opponents will say and do anything to try and win.” Well, yes. But why does Ellison think calling someone a Muslim is a “smear”? If somebody called me a Muslim, I wouldn’t feel smeared, any […]

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Tags: Horse Race Politics · Sociology · Stupid Shit

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

March 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Where are all the damned, so-called Libertarians on FISA? How about here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here… have I mentioned that this is all just my own stuff so far, not counting a few thousand more unbylined words on the topic over at The Economist‘s blog? Try Googling “Tim Lee” and […]

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Tags: Privacy and Surveillance