If you’re at all interested in how new technologies are transforming the distribution of movies and other media, you really have to be reading the Infinicine, by terrifyingly savvy film nerd Laure Parsons.

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Ariel Dorfman on Film and Civil Liberties from Julian Sanchez on Vimeo.

ACLU Membership Conference

Cast: Julian Sanchez

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More NRO, News Central [Andy McCarthy] K-Lo, not that I would ever toot my own flute, but [….] Followed by… re: More NRO, News Central [Kathryn Jean Lopez] You’ve earned more than your fair share of tooting, Andy. If I start slugging back scotch now, maybe I can eradicate the memory of ever having read […]

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I’m going to have to take Reihan Salam’s side against Radley Balko in the recent dust up over the McCain campaign’s hiring of Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb. Pace Radley, I don’t think Goldfarb’s insane views on executive power reflect terribly badly on the campaign, given that he’s been hired as deputy communications director. What […]

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As long as I’m doing film recommendations, I should note for the benefit of those of you in the D.C. area that AFI in Silver Spring will be screening Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville this weekend, with matinees Saturday and Sunday, and one final showing next Wednesday evening. It’s a surprisingly libertarian-flavored movie, especially given that Godard […]

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Tom Leherer’s classic “New Math”: Bo Burnham’s “New Math”—arguably (will I be struck by lightning for blasphemy?) funnier:

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A few months back, when my roomate was heavily covering the whole Ron Paul R[EVOL]ution, I would swing by  a Ron Paul discussion forum every now and again to see what was on the minds of the Paulistas. As the Republican primary rolled on and it became clear that John McCain would be the nominee […]

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After hearing wonderful things about it for something like a decade (notably an effusive appreciation by Robert Anton Wilson that I read back in high school) I finally got around to seeing Orson Welles’ fantastic F for Fake this weekend. It instantly broke into my top five. Get yourself a copy or find a screening […]

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Haven’t you always wanted a Unix-style command line interface for Google?

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I have to register again the sheer weirdness of seeing the writers’ flophouse around the corner itself becoming a sort of news story: And yes, that’s me in a couple shots tappitty-tapping away liveblogging some interminable primary for Democracy in America.

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