Sorry, that was the sound of a minor orgasm. The trailer for Serenity, the Firefly movie, is now online.

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I click away from TV Turnoff week in “A Shrinking Wasteland.

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I should be beyond surprise of this sort, but it’s still a little striking to see self-righteous dudgeon and disingenuous horseshit combined in such close proximity and copious quantity. Glenn’s reminding everyone of his “link-rich refutation” of the “revisionist” claim that democracy promotion wasn’t part of the rationale for invading Iraq. Since most of his […]

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As someone who’s generally disposed to favor free-market solutions to a wide variety of problems, I’ve always been a bit troubled by the observation, often touted by progressives, that here in the U.S. we manage to spend a hell of a lot more per capita on healthcare than various countries where it’s socialized to some […]

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As I mentioned in a previous post, the Chicago Ring, originally August Everding’s, wasn’t quite some super-stripped down avant garde Sprockets affair of the kind Wieland Wagner was so fond of, but it was also quite a distance from the hyper-realistic Schenk stagings I’d seen at the Met—a multicultural, Flash Gordon-slash-Tron affair with an eclectic […]

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A pillow inscribed in big block letters: “If you’re ugly, please leave before I wake up.”

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Still clearing out the backblog from Chicago: Last Wednesday I stopped by Roosevelt University for a talk by economist Deirdre (née Donald) McCloskey about her forthcoming book on “bourgeois virtues”—there’s a preliminary paper on the subject here. The upshot is, interestingly, that both Chicago School trumpeters of “greed is good” paeans to capitalism and the […]

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A little defense of judicial tyranny.

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Two things that I’ve found myself wondering about: First, who is the father of the Rhinemaidens, the one who entrusted them with the Rhinegold, told them how it could be fashioned into a ring of power, and warned them about “such a foe” as Alberich? I guess in the back of my head I’d thought […]

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From CrookedTimber: I had to share this detail from the Family Research Council’s webpage for their book Getting It Straight:What the Research Shows About Homosexuality: Chapter 6: Is There a Link between Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse? Ã?· A study of 229 convicted child molesters in Archives of Sexual Behavior found that “eighty-six percent of […]

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