From the Goddamn Cobras, who brought you the Brooklyn Brat Pack, and the excellent Pearl and the Beard:

Pearl and the Beard – Will Smith Medley from Goddamn Cobras Collective on Vimeo.

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Via Glen Whitman:

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Speaking of orthodoxy, heterodoxy, and their relative rewards: I’ve had occasion to recall something Yglesias wrote about a year back, responding to one of my own posts about the popular charge that insufficiently strident conservatives must just be venal climbers hoping to curry favor with liberals:
I think this situation is rather more complicated than Julian [...]

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Sez they:
The loss of two people, even high ranking ones, might not seem too brutal but for the website’s recent history: it lost a quarter of its staff last November, along with a closely-aligned development executive at parent company CondéNet; then in April it lost more staff, including managing editor Leander Kahney, two other full-time [...]

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Does Jeff Sessions phone up Kim Jong Il late at night to thank him for leaving some small sliver of doubt about who is the worst living human being on the planet?

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Given that my current idée fixe seems to be the depressing rarity with which people actually understand the views of people with different ideologies, I was pleased to see Tyler Cowen’s attempt at a sympathetic summary of what he sees as an intelligent progressive’s credo—one that at least some progressives apparently recognize as a fair [...]

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My posting this cartoon should in no way be construed as an admission that I identify in any way with the character depicted. Because I am, in fact, a very serious grown-up writer person.  Who may possibly also dig Batman.

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I’ll have plenty to say soon enough, of course, but in the interim, The Washington Independent has lots of solid coverage.

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Earlier today, I was out poking around a DC vintage clothing shop, where I found a jacket I really liked—tuxedo style with satiny black lapels and covered in dark blue floral print.  I picked it up, and the shortly thereafter realized I was late to an event for which (having forgotten about it) I was [...]

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Despite fairly serious reservations, I’m leaning Obamaward in the upcoming election. Still, I think it’s absolutely fair for Republicans to focus on his relative lack of experience in making their case against him. But it does seem that you can’t simultaneously do that, and then say things like this when the question turns to Sarah [...]

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