I’m so hitting this if I get back in time from New York, where I’ll be seeing the Kirov production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle the previous week. I’ll just have to be careful not to bust into “Where Do We Go from Here?” during Siegfried’s death march.

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“Awesome Canadian hip-hop” are three words seldom strung together in that order; as far as I’m aware, it’s a descriptive phrase with a unique extension: Edmonton-based rapper Cadence Weapon. He’ll be playing The Red and the Black next month.

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The band, that is. They’re at Rock and Roll Hotel tonight; The Broken West is opening.

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Also via Cato-at-Liberty comes a link to this Washington Post op-ed in defense of the D.C. gun ban: In other words, even if the D.C. Circuit is right in holding that the Second Amendment creates individual rights, that does not answer the question as to the level of scrutiny to be used in evaluating gun […]

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So unlike Becks, I’m happy enough about the recent court ruling bringing “more guns” into the District. The violent criminals seem to have all they need, after all: Any “more” at this point pretty much have to end up in the hands of their prospective victims. But since gun rights aren’t really my bailiwick, I […]

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The D.C. Circuit Court has struck down the District’s handgun ban as a violation of the Second Amendment—which, crucially, they interpret as an individual right. Glenn Reynolds has a roundup.

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The desperate attention-mongering antics of Ann Coulter, who long ago transitioned from pundit to mediocre standup comic, seem to have finally proved too embarrassing for her erstwhile base: In her 2006 speech at CPAC, she slagged Muslims as “ragheads”—which she defended as a perfectly reasonable joke since, after all, “they” had blown up the World […]

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Wow, this is beyond ridiculous. I’m hosting the libertarian end of a battle royale for BloggingHeads, with Will Wilkinson narrating while Megan “Jane Galt” McArdle cooks a sumptuous meal, in competition/debate with Spencer Ackerman and Ezra Klein. My “stadium kitchen” is lit up like Christmas, and the parties are arguing the merits of transfats and […]

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Is it just me, or have the last two or three years seen the gradual rise to near ubiquity of articles of clothing featuring big teal & maroon stripes? I was out with some folk at a local bar last weekend, and noted that one friend was wearing a scarf with that color scheme, which […]

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That’s right, it’s the Sex Workers’ Art Show at Rock and Roll Hotel. UPDATE: Whoops! It’s been canceled on account of inclement weather. Because D.C. still hasn’t figured out how to cope with more than two inches of snow.

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