I’m in the estimable company of Matt Yglesias as one of the two non-professors cited in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s article on scholar-bloggers.

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Despite technically having one day yet to go at Cato, I’ve joined the Reason bloggers over at Hit and Run. Henceforth, shorter news-links will probably go over there, while long, tedious screeds go here. And fighting with lefties on Jakeneck. And anti-war/anti-imperialist stuff on Stand Down. Oy. Thassalottabloggin.

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My colleague (for one more day) John Samples passed on this piece by Dr. Ian Pitchford. It’s complimentary on face, but in a subtly condescending way. It’s a bit like being complimented for tying your shoes, or eating dinner without drooling. Anyway, it begins: Reason’s cover story for May, ’03 was “Pulling Our Own Strings: […]

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This looks useful… a friend just forwarded a comprehensive list of D.C. Happy Hours. Use it wisely.

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I think I can safely speak for my generation when I say that the childhood memories we’ll each cherish most fondly are of 1980s TV advertising. Give yourself a few hours to waste and prepare for an orgiastic nostalgia frenzy.

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This New York Times Magazine article gets the prize for the worst neologism of a week, but does prompt a thought… aside from what I’m going to guess is a too-sanguine attitude towards our current military interventionism, what exactly separates these guys from libertarians? More generally, I get the impression that young “conservatives” who aren’t […]

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Insty links a recent piece from Scrappleface, which practically oozes desperation. The tiresome pseudo-apology isn’t particularly funny, but the underlying argument you reach if you peel it away is laugh out loud hilarious. The message, in short, is that because terror can now be carried out with the tools any stockboy has access to at […]

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The most recent Brian Lehrer show includes discussions with Chuck Freund on Arab pop culture and with Jeet Heer on the Straussian influence on the Bush administration.

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Just one last reminder: Thursday night, 7pm at Rendezvous Lounge near 18th and Kalorama. Tell your friends.

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