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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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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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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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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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China is so going to own us in a decade.

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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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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 replete [...]

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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, [...]

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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 “FISA” [...]

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