This ABC News story on CIA interrogation tactics is old news by now, but there was one section I’d meant to comment on: Water Boarding: The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner’s face and water is poured over him. Unavoidably, […]

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I know it’s hard to believe, dear readers, but there are a couple of regrettable gaping lacunae in my education—chief among them, alas, visual art. Fortunately, I can outsource my responsibility for knowing exactly why Jed Perl is totally fucking wrong to sharp folk like fellow U Street denizen Kriston Capps. And you know he […]

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If you like more than your potatoes mashed up on a Thanksgiving weekend, check out this deft blend by Party Dan of Cake’s “Never There” and Gorillaz’s “Feel Good Inc.”

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Over at The Corner, John J. Miller says about this story: One of the most interesting things about the abortion pill story is that it actually uses the term “abortion pill” — as opposed to “emergency contraception” or somesuch. I haven’t done a careful analysis of this, but I suspect that the media often doesn’t […]

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You know how sometimes you’ll pick up an album (or even two) from some artist, give it a couple listens, and then forget about it for months—even years? And then, on a whim, you decide to give it another listen and can’t believe you didn’t instantly recognize how brilliant it was when you first heard […]

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When Jarah Euston started her online alt-weekly Web zine Fresno Famous, she chose for the banner a mural bearing this quote: I’m not going to be famous I won’t get to be a rock star I am going to be stuck on the payroll Doing work that doesn’t interest me For a very long time […]

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I’ve got a new Web piece on torture and habeas corpus up at the Reason site.

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Over at Hit and Run, my colleague Jacob Sullum links to this story about dueling ads in the fight over Samuel Alito. This statement from a spokesman for the aggressively secular People for the American Way caught my eye: As for the commercial attacking his group, Mr. Minceberg said it falsely charged that People for […]

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It looks like the FTC is already aware of the problem of Spanish-language telemarketers ignoring the Do Not Call list: They’ve apparently launched a crackdown, according to a press release from last month.

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Overheard in New York collects snippets of witty, funny, or otherwise interesting exchanges that readers… well, overheard in New York. One of the contributors is Michael Malice, who I knew slightly back when I lived in Manhattan.

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