Mike Doughty describes his new album Rockitty Roll, which with six new songs clocks in at a hair under 20 minutes, as an “appetizer” for his forthcoming EP. Well, consider my appetite whetted. This is far and away Doughty’s most produced solo release, and while I love the stripped-down voice-and-a-guitar sound of his previous two […]

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Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: Pig Lib. Fantastic. Why am I just getting into this guy? Quasi: Hot Shit. Good follow-up to The Sword of God, and with a bonus live disc even. Looking forward to seeing them Thursday. Ui: Answers. Funky, funky, funky technojazz. Son Volt: Straightaways. Not as good as Trace, but it’ll […]

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So, you consider yourself an afficionado of both the cult film Donnie Darko and the whimsical Japanese stuffed pop icon Domokun? Behold this strange mash-up [Real]: a Domokun montage set to Gary Jules‘s haunting cover of “Mad World” from DD.

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I’ll be talking about the PATRIOT Act on American Breakfast from 8:30 to 9 or so. If you follow the link, you can listen online. Update: That was fun… the interview got cut a bit short by the admittedly more pressing issue of the hurricane on our doorstep, but the host suggested that I come […]

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My quick take on the new HBO series K Street is now up at Reason.

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The NR crowd are linking the news that new imaging techniques show foetuses smiling in the womb, citing it as “bad news for NARAL.” Maybe it is from the point of view of popular reaction… but I’m always puzzled when pro-life folks cite things like that. Isn’t it tantamount to announcing that support for your […]

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So far, beyond the cross dressing, which is just sort of humorous, we knew that John Lott was at best guilty of irresponsibility with numbers that bordered on the fraudulent (e.g. making claims based on 13-instance samples) and at worst, outright fabrication of a survey. Well, if you were still keeping your fingers crossed for […]

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It didn’t even occur to me this morning that it was September 11 until close to noon. I then promptly forgot about it again until right about now, noticing all the blogs posting bloated memoria. Which I figure is a good thing. I’m now going to forget it again and maybe go catch a band […]

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I’m about to leave for Pennsylvania, where I’m to give a talk to a local libertarian group on politics and generational attitudes. (In a nutshell: Gen Xers tend to lean libertarian; Millenials scare the living hell out of me.) Anyway, the talk may or may not show up on local cable, so if you’re curious […]

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Last week’s piece on the PATRIOT Act at Reason prompted a response from the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald, which is now up on the site with a brief rejoinder from me.

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