Outrage Kabuki, my requisite commentary on the Daily Kos business.

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It’s been too long since we had a Blogorama, and there’s no time like the present. So let’s say this Thursday, April 8 around 7pm. As always, we’ll congregate at the Rendezvous Lounge, conveniently located at the scenic intersection of 18th Street and Kalorama. Tell your friends, cross post the announcement, but most importanly, show […]

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The new Modest Mouse album, Good News for People Who Love Bad News drops Tuesday, April 6. We now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging.

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There’s already some heavy kvetching in effect about a new Denton-property called Kinja, a topical blog-post aggregator. The main bitch is this: Just another “portal” where the unseen, all-knowing “editors” decide what is good for you to read? … Blogs of note? And who the hell is deciding who meets that standard? Even more important, […]

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I’ve enjoyed my time at Reason a great deal, but as some Hit and Run commenters long suspected, I’ve been in negotiations with Katrina vanden Heuvel for a while now and am looking forward to starting the new job I’ve just accepted. Beginning next week, I’ll be doing my writing here. UPDATE: A somewhat unsettling […]

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Neal Pollack returns.

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So, there’s probably a blindingly obvious answer to this question, but I was kicking it around with a couple of fairly sharp folks at the Guatemala conference earlier this month and, while we came up with a few possible answers, none seemed obviously right. I’d forgotten about it soon after, but it just came up […]

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