Crossposted on Stand Down. A few colleagues and I headed over to the Georgetown Law Center to check out the Iraq debate which pitted political theorists Benjamin Barber and William Galston, on the antiwar side, against The Threatening Storm author Kenneth Pollack and journalist Jonathan Chait, who defended invasion. That’s actually not entirely accurate. The […]

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I stopped in at an AFF happy hour after work on Halloween, and they’ve thrown up some photos. Above I’m standing with colleague Kerry Hardy (in diabolic attire) and someone I ran into that night whose name, shamefully, has slipped my mind.

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Joanne tipped me off that Jello Biafra, the ex-Dead Kennedys frontman cum P.T. Barnum of political dissent, was speaking a mere stoneâ??s throw from Cato. â??Speakingâ? doesnâ??t quite cover it, though, if what you have in mind is a lecture of the sort you might get in a college classroom or some D.C. policy forum. […]

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Brad Gittern at D.C. Blows just put me on his blogroll with the following explanation: “Notes from the Lounge is a bit of a misnomer, as (much like the Vodkapooper) it sounds like itâ??s all about lazy, sloshy good times. Itâ??s actually about deeper issues and can only be read by people with PhDs and […]

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Over the past century, man has produced many great, innovative works of high art. Joyceâ??s Ulysses. The atonal symphonies of Arnold Schoenberg. The films of Orson Welles. The new century has barely begun, but I feel entitled to assert quite confidently that historians will select, as the greatest work of genius of the 21st, outshining […]

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Despite an obnoxious late-bloomer wisdom tooth which continues to produce a dull ache by insisting on pushing up through my gums and tearing away at my left inner cheek, I had a blast at this weekend’s Cato University in sunny rainy for three days each year San Diego. Plenty of good food for thought, about […]

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Virginia Postrel recently posted the cover image for her new book Look and Feel. Now, forgive me for being gauche, but the “Look” part of the cover is clearly supposed to resemble an eye. Appropriate enough. Am I the only one for whom the “feel” portion of the cover is distinctly evocative of… erm… something […]

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I am thrilled to discover that the incredibly cool label Ninja Tune lets you listen to all (yes, all) of Amon Tobin’s albums online. Check it! This is doing wonders to help my tired self get psyched up for tonight’s show.

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Election night in this town is strange — people cheering like fratties at a football game as Gene Carnahan inches ahead of Jim Talent by a couple of percent. Like South America during the world cup, only without the salsa and 98% of the energy. Err, yeah. Anyway, overheard at the Capitol Lounge, in the […]

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I have to confess, I do get a kick out of the horse-race atmosphere of election day. I’m looking forward to heading home, taking a quick nap, and then heading out to a local pub to watch the returns come in. Beats the ponies any day. Maybe just for the hell of it I’ll swing […]

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