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Hijinks Ensue

April 12th, 2008 · 24 Comments

Twitter informs me that a friend—whose name I’ll omit for the moment—just got arrested at a little dance party some libertarians were holding at the Jefferson Memorial (which, apparently, is open to the public 24/7). I’m not entirely clear on what the charge could have been—I wasn’t aware dancing at a public monument was prohibited [...]

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They Keep Pullin’ Me Back In!

April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Gene Healy was a founding don of what, lo those many years ago, we jokingly called the Cato Blog Mafia.  Long out of the game, Gene has just announced his triumphant return to the blogosphere, where he’ll presumably be focusing on the issues at the heart of his excellent new book The Cult of the [...]

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Tags: Journalism & the Media · Law · Washington, DC

Scenes from a Bookstore

March 31st, 2008 · 5 Comments

This weekend, I wandered into a local bookstore to browse a bit and ended up grabbing a copy of John Rawls’ posthumously-published Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy. (I note with some satisfaction that this volume boasts a nicely-designed cover, a feature normally reserved for trendy texts consumed by Comp Lit majors and ignored [...]

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Tags: General Philosophy · Washington, DC

Cats and Blogs, Living Together

March 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I always used to consider it a rule of thumb that once any person, band, trend, or other phenomenon was written up in the New York Times Style section, it was over—or at least seriously moribund. I’m hoping that’s only approximately true, since roomie Dave Weigel and I make a cameo in this NYT [...]

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Tags: Self Promotion · Washington, DC

Weaponized

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments

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

Local Awesomeness

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Tonight: Graphic novelist Adrian Tomine at Politics & Prose, 7pm.
Tomorrow: Brilliant Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon, who is sick enough to flow over bizarro electroclash beats and make it sound perfectly natural, at DC9.

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The Ron Paul Campaign Is Part of the Smearbund!

February 8th, 2008 · No Comments

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CPAC Poker

February 8th, 2008 · No Comments

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Lessons in Parsimony

January 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments

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Brother, Can You Spare a Refrigerator Box?

October 21st, 2007 · 5 Comments

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