That’s right, it’s the Sex Workers’ Art Show at Rock and Roll Hotel. UPDATE: Whoops! It’s been canceled on account of inclement weather. Because D.C. still hasn’t figured out how to cope with more than two inches of snow.

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Various bloggers are cheering yesterday’s ABC News report that radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the guy who rocks the body that rocks the Mahdi Army, has fled Iraq for Iran. Obviously, we can’t know what’s really going on, but this sounds incredible fishy. Consider some of Captain Ed’s reasons for cheering: This couldn’t have come at […]

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So, I’d figured a trivia team comprising Ezra Klein, Megan McArdle, Dave Weigel, and myself would be blogaliciously nerdtastic enough to have a good shot at winning the weekly pub quiz at Wonderland last night. And we got close, but ultimately came in second by one tiebreaker question… to Alex Pareene‘s team.

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Security expert Bruce Schneier has a long and interesting paper on the various evolved cognitive biases that skew our thinking about risk and security, hampering our ability to make sane tradeoffs. This may help to explain why, when the city of Boston had an expensive panic attack in response to a bunch of LED cartoon […]

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Lindsay Gibson at DCist takes a look at how gay couples’ rights are faring in the DC metro area.

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There’s not a ton to add to Radley’s post about the case of two teenagers (16 and 17) convicted on child porn charges for e-mailing each other nude photos of themselves. It would be funny if it weren’t so grotesque. The real apex of stupidity comes in this bit from the majority opinion upholding the […]

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Sick, sick, sick. Ezra links to a report from Human Rights Watch on prison rape, including the first-person account of a man doing time for DUI offenses who was serially gang-raped and essentially told by prison officials that they couldn’t (read “wouldn’t”) do anything about it. Their best advice? Find a tough guy you can […]

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In the midst of an interesting Spiked essay on the disconcerting popularity of “denier” (as in “Holocaust denier”) as an increasingly broad descriptor for people who demur from the majority view on issues like climate change, Frank Furedi has a passing remark about how we increasingly tend to suppress overtly moral rhetoric, to conceal the […]

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Just found on Wired: The Shins have a self-shot documentary called Behind the Shins. So, shouldn’t they just have titled it Calves*? Also posted, the video for their song “Phantom Limb,” compiled from concert footage shot by fans on cell phone cameras. *Doh! I originally wrote “Hamstrings.” This is what happens when you post uncaffinated, […]

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Radley fumes over the latest proposed addition to the duty roster of Nanny State: Vermont lawmakers are considering a measure that would ban eating, drinking, smoking, reading, writing, personal grooming, playing an instrument, “interacting with pets or cargo,” talking on a cell phone or using any other personal communication device while driving. The punishment: a […]

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