I’ve just learned Tim Blair has cancer. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

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My first thought upon being sent this Ashlee Simpson video was: “How bizarre! This is basically just a string of visual and aural quotes from 1980s pop culture, but it’s pitched at a demographic that—unlike, say, many viewers of Family Guy or fans of New Wave revival bands—can’t possibly be nostalgic for the 80s. Hell, […]

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I can only assume I’ll be making this list once the piece Dave Weigel and I co-authored hits the Reason Web site later today… Update: Ok, more like tomorrow…

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I’ve got a piece over at Ars Technica on the fraught fortunes of the Sirius/XM merger.

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So, on top of his apparent association with racists, Ron Paul surely has many weird and wrong views. But you know what’s depressing? When someone gets column space at a major publication not to expose why those views are wrong with any kind of rigor, but to waste readers’ time with a vacuous, folksy “don’t […]

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At The Economist’s Democracy in America.

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I realize that during campaign season, talking about a month-old scandal is like slapping platform shoes and a Nehru jacket, but I just found myself thinking about the case of Bill Shaheen, Hillary Clinton’s former New Hampshire campaign co-chair, who had to resign after suggesting that Barack Obama—who has admitted using marijuana and cocaine as […]

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So sez Bob Dylan, and MP3s and cheap headphones are to blame.

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Andrew Sullivan: From a conservative perspective, on spending, debt, big government, regulation, which Democrat could be worse [than Bush]? This is like that scene in movies where the put-upon protagonists say “Well, at least it’s not raining,” at which point we hear a booming thunderclap.

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The Corner reports that, over the weekend, Bill Maher joked on a late night talk show that it is “schizophrenic” to “be a rational person six days of the week and put on a suit and make rational decisions and go to work and, on one day of the week, go to a building and […]

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