I just spotted the following meme making its way around MySpace—I’m leaving the whole thing as-written, so I don’t have to litter the text with “sic” for each of the myriad little errors: On May 15th all myspace members are to not go to the gas station in protest high gas prices. Gas is now […]

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Ezra is right about Will Saletan’s recent Slate column on the HBO drama Big Love. Saletan writes: Talented writers and actors are trying to make plausible the idea that American women raised in an age of sexual egalitarianism are bighearted enough to share a husband. He goes on to point out all the ways that, […]

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So, over the past couple days, numerous friends have approached me with some equivalent of “Hey, there’s this movie Brick, and one of the characters is you…” Now, since I was about ten, I’ve been hearing I look slightly like Lukas Haas, so I quickly guessed that he was the actor in question. But they […]

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I put on Pretty Hate Machine the other day; first time in years. And hey, there we go, quicker than you can say “tea-soaked madeline,” I’m black-clad 13, dark jeans and a 2600 T-shirt, denim jacket with the circle-A patch—Chuck Taylors slapping pale green tile and “The Only Time” on headphones blocking locker doors’ clang. […]

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…is also the frighteningly talented winner of this year’s Felix Morley Journalism Prize. That much concentrated awesomeness seems almost unjust… but nobody’s figured out how to redistribute awesomeness to the less awesomely endowed, so she’s probably safe—for now.

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I had a piece up at Reason this weekend, “Driving Miss Jihadi,” about the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case.

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