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Adventures with Patrick Stewart

May 26th, 2004 · Comments Off on Adventures with Patrick Stewart

Now I know how Alex in A Clockwork Orange felt having to listen to lovely lovely Ludwig Van during the Ludowico Treatment. An ad for some cholestorol lowering pill called Crestor features Patrick Stewart reading doggerel, Dick-and-Jane style rhyming couplets about the drug. To compensate, a story, definitely third-hand and possibly apocryphal, about Mr. Stewart. […]

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Click It or Ticket

May 26th, 2004 · Comments Off on Click It or Ticket

Maryland’s running a series of public service announcements encouraging drivers to buckle up (or be ticketed). In one bit, an officer encourages people to comply with the law so that officers can devote their attention to other, more important tasks. Which, of course, makes one wonder: If they acknowledge that it’s stupid for cops to […]

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Raffishness

May 26th, 2004 · Comments Off on Raffishness

The infamous Matt Welch was in town last week and mentions having met “the raffish Julian Sanchez.” raff·ish (adj: ‘ra-fish) 1 : marked by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity or crudeness 2 : marked by a careless unconventionality : rakish I’m shooting for definition 2 here, though since most of our interaction involved a variety […]

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Goodbye to All That

May 25th, 2004 · Comments Off on Goodbye to All That

So, when I’ve written about music here of late, it’s been about opera and indie rock mostly. But as folks who’ve known me for a while know, I was a hippie in a former life. So I felt a bit of nostalgic sadness when I was forwarded news by an old friend that uberjamband Phish […]

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Oy

May 24th, 2004 · Comments Off on Oy

I’ve disagreed with Instapundit plenty since the war started gearing up, but this post, which Yglesias links, is truly pathetic. Months after it’s been clear to everyone that the WMD rationale for the war was bogus, a couple shells of sarin, source unclear, show up… and those of us who are still connected to reality […]

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In Rotation

May 20th, 2004 · Comments Off on In Rotation

Trip to Borders this week netted a bunch of albums I’d been meaning to pick up for some time but hadn’t gotten ’round to yet: Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News The Vines: Winning Days TV on the Radio: Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babies Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand Yeah Yeah Yeahs: […]

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Real Love?

May 20th, 2004 · 1 Comment

When last we saw Jenny Roback Morse, she was holding forth on the link between marriage and human nature, undeterred by her complete scientific illiteracy. Now she’s produced another farrago of a piece on the subject—one of those that’s so confused in so many different ways, you barely know where to begin. The central argument […]

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Guilt and Luck

May 20th, 2004 · Comments Off on Guilt and Luck

I’m never surprised to come across some tendentious self-congratulatory piece of the “if you’re not a liberal at 18…” variety, wherein some conservative muses on what kind of personal pathology might induce people to persist in the immature “liberal” phase past the age of reason. But it’s always a little disappointing when philosophy professors stoop […]

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Scrabble on the Big Screen

May 18th, 2004 · Comments Off on Scrabble on the Big Screen

Caught Word Wars this weekend with the Sexy Economist™: It’s a documentary about the competitive Scrabble circuit which, like its spiritual cousin Spellbound, is much more interesting than it sounds. The film follows four stranger-than-fiction competitors: a Zen-spouting, Tai Chi practicing trifecta champ; a gangly, Maalox-quaffing nebbish from Brooklyn; a dope-smokin’ “pre-Mecca Malcolm” from Baltimore, […]

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A Persecuted Majority

May 17th, 2004 · Comments Off on A Persecuted Majority

I’ve always found grating the claims of some pundits that Christians, a huge majority of the American population, are some sort of downtrodden, persecuted minority. Usually what’s meant is that in a pluralistic society, it’s less and less the case that one group’s religious conception is woven into the public legal structure, and that cultural […]

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