First things first: whatever your political orientation, you should be angry right now. Not a sort of abstract, tounge-clicking-head-shaking upset at the willingness of D.C. police to use the Constitution as so much Charmin, but a robust, fists clenched, teeth gnashing, “fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” variety of pissed off. Maybe […]

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Mobius and his friend Dan are in town for the big anti-capitalist bruhaha, and it took about 15 minutes for one of them to be arrested (follow Mobius’s link for details). Ironically, transit — which the march/actions had been intended to shut down — was probably smoother this morning, because the police’s throw-em-in-busses-indiscriminately strategy had […]

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Neal Pollack is hilarious. Thanks Missy.

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A few months back, I blogged about world-class sleaze Trever Palmer, a kid who just couldn’t get over what an incredible hero he was for turning his father in to the police. Dad’s crime? Growing a few pot plants, which helped relieve his arthritis. This interview with Trever’s dad, courtesy of reader Michael Yuri, reveals […]

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A dispute between Republican and Democratic spokesmen on the NewsHour last night crossed over into Onionesque self parody. It went more or less like this– D: President Bush is politicizing the Iraq issue, using the war on terror for political gain! We demand an apology for his slanders against Democrats in the Senate. He should […]

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In a bit of good news on the international front, the no-longer-Grey Lady reports that the token non-Muslim member of Bush’s Axis of Evil is making a halting attempt to join the 20th century, a mere two years after its end: “In the most significant reversal of economic policy since North Korea was founded, that […]

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French author Michel Houellebecq is facing jail and a $51,000 civil suit for calling Islam the “stupidest religion.” And a French court ruled back in 2000 that Yahoo! had to block French IPs from accessing auctions of Nazi paraphenalia, even on their American site. They’ve had no success so far in getting American courts to […]

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Does it ever bother you that the “chattering classes” are constantly attempting to draw broad lessons for public policy from whatever happened yesterday, totally severed from context? Presumably they do this because CNN/the Internet/etc. have conditioned us to always expect something new, even though a productive debate on most issues would focus on delving more […]

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Radley wants to know how, below, I can get my undies in a bunch about those who say eating meat’s unethical, but continue to do so, without being equally critical of pro-choice folk who aver that they’re morally uncomfortable with abortion. A few respones. First, it’s not really a proper analogy. That would be the […]

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Courtesy of the U.S. military and D.C. police, Buzz is dead. Nation, the club which hosted Buzz on friday nights, was threatened with the revocation of its liquor license if it didn’t give Buzz the boot. I’m not sure what this is supposed to accomplish. Apparently, this was all kickstarted by a few marines who […]

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