Ask opera buffs who was the greatest soprano of the 20th century, and I’ll hazard that only the most determined contrarians will fail to name Maria Callas. NPR remembers la divina 27 years after her death. As one of the commentators in the story so aptly puts it, she had a way of making music […]

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OK, I’ll confess, this has crossed my mind once or twice in the last 48 hours.

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Ex-roomie Chuck Karczag is bloggin’ the election from South Carolina over at TNR’s election blog.

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A sight quibble with my esteemed colleague Brian on the logic of abstention from voting. (I should note that I’m staying home as well, though because D.C. is so absurdly safe for Kerry, more than out of any general objection to voting.) After running through the familiar argument that the chances of your vote actually […]

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I can’t believe I didn’t find this until today: Republican Phone Sex.

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Slate’s election scorecard is still headlined “If the election were held today.”

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Listen Missy has pictures from this weekend’s Halloween party. Update: Roomie Tim has some photos as well.

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So, I wore this costume to an AFF Happy Hour the other night: I was a little surprised by the number of people who recognized it. Maybe I’ll keep it around after Halloween for a little occasional crimefighting.

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Someone could probably start a full-time blog just calling bullshit on instances of Dowdification. For instance, we’ve got a new stump speech talking point from Bush today that’s been making the rounds: Now my opponent is throwing out the wild claim that he knows where bin Laden was in the fall of 2001 — and […]

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In preparation for a talk I’m giving in December, I began reading Benjamin Barber’s Jihad vs. McWorld, the first lengthy work of Barbers I’ve picked up since slogging through a farrago called Strong Democracy four or five years ago. Barber’s got a certain stylistic flair; I can see why the book enjoyed such wide popular […]

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