The new Apples in Stereo album rates, at absolute minimum, an 8.1. Please modulate your crack consumption accordingly. Or at the very least, attempt to find a reviewer who (1) does not hold the frankly inexplicable view that the middling Her Wallpaper Reverie constitues the band’s “peak” and (2) actually knows that the album is […]

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According to The Economist, Apple poobah Steve Jobs doesn’t like the noxious way iTunes cripples the songs it sells any more than the rest of us. Rather, he claims, the record companies made him do it. This seems fairly shortsighted on their part: Once you’ve released one CD of an album, convertible to unprotected MP3, […]

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The Washington Post reports that price controls on food in Venezuela have (try not to bruise your jaw on the floor here) led to endemic shortages. But don’t worry, the government knows just how to fix the problem: Government officials dismiss any problems with price controls, while state TV has begun running tickers urging the […]

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Well, every other blogger on earth—and probably whatever extraterrestrials may be on Livejournal as well—has already weighed in on the Amanda Marcotte/John Edwards bruhaha, so I figured I might as well sit this one out. Then I had some sort of nightmare last night, in which—the details are a little fuzzy—I was somehow working as […]

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 Ok, consider my mind duly blown. Apparently Stephen Root, the guy who played nebbishy, unhinged Milton in Office Space has also portrayed… wait for it… a Klingon warrior.  

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So, I did end up going to catch Sir, No Sir earlier this week. Though a little heavy handed, and more than a little Manichean, it was basically a solid and effective documentary, which I hope I’ll get around to giving its own post later. Before the main event, though, there was an amateurish 5–10 […]

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Not finalized yet, but it looks as though we may have secured new digs in the neighborhood. Whew.

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Andrew Wiseman at DCist makes a plea for better listener-supported D.C. radio, along the lines of New York’s excellent WFMU noting: Demand clearly isn’t an issue, and as Marc Fisher points out, 3/4 of all Americans still listen to the radio, even with iPods, internet and satellite radio, and repetitive dreck from terrestrial stations. And […]

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As we all know, the great peril of gay marriage is that it will break the ironclad link between romantic commitment and keeping your quiver full. Now, Ann Friedman notes, there’s a group fighting the even more serious threat of married childless heterosexuals. So join the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance today!

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I headed downtown earlier today to see Leon Kass speak at AEI on his favorite topic: Human Dignity. More or less as I expected, Kass is a master of what (in honor of the late Alan Bloom) I’ve decided to call Bloombast: The conservative version of that special gift for conjuring a sense that you […]

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