Reason now has a Facebook group. Semi-related: I note with mild satisfaction that the bulk of the posts on the group “Libertarianism is an Unfortunate Fad” are borderline illiterate, and even the group description is a syntactic mangle.

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Via my friend Chuck in comments below, I see a school choice blog linking to Clint Bolick’s WSJ op-ed last week on Dem candidates’ (ahem) ambivalence on the virtues of private schooling. Short version: All four Democratic presidential candidates oppose school choice, with Barack Obama having gone so far as to call vouchers a force […]

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The desperate attention-mongering antics of Ann Coulter, who long ago transitioned from pundit to mediocre standup comic, seem to have finally proved too embarrassing for her erstwhile base: In her 2006 speech at CPAC, she slagged Muslims as “ragheads”—which she defended as a perfectly reasonable joke since, after all, “they” had blown up the World […]

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Next time you’ve got an appropriate group of people together, and the appropriate amount of alcohol, give this a shot: Agree on a poetic form. One of the sonnet styles is probably a safe bet; if your friends can pull this off with (say) a sestina, they’re both scary smart and not nearly tipsy enough. […]

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That’s right, it’s Casimir Pulaski Day: DCist has more.

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He’d better hope Hillary doesn’t get hold of this. (HT: Laure.)

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You can now watch a bizarre experiment called Blogging Chef, a 4-way liberal/libertarian debate and cooking competition we filmed in the kitchens of Casa de Libertarios & the Florida Flophouse, between chefs Spencer Ackerman and Megan McCardle, with sous bloggers Ezra Klein and Will Wilkinson. I’m seen at the start and the end doing a […]

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The video below shows Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer being hauled off to prison; you can hear what observers say is Kareem being struck and crying out about halfway through.

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In case anyone had been wondering, here’s the sound clip from Transformers: The Movie. (The original classic, not what will, in all likelihood, be the Michael Bay abortion.) Fun fact: Megatron’s interlocutor in this scene, Unicron, is Orson Welles in his final screen role. Welles derided it as “a movie about toys who do horrible […]

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I somehow missed this earlier, but Tyler Cowen has a piece in the International Herald Tribune noting that American cultural products don’t enjoy the kind of monopoly on global attention spans some imagine. Now, while it may hearten those who spend sleepless nights worrying about “cultural imperialism” or creeping homogenization, some of the data he […]

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