OK, any putative friends of mine who were aware aware of the existence of the band Enon and  neglected to inform me… well, what this kid said.

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Lemme just second Tom Lee: Jailbreaking = teh awesome. Not sure why I didn’t do it earlier. If you’ve got an iPhone you haven’t unlocked yet, go here.

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Over at The Economist.

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Am I the only one who did a double-take at the headline “Obama’s Well-Aged Beef“?

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Michael Goldfarb is apparently sorely vexed that bloggers and journalists on a conference call with the Pentagon about China’s military buildup would be so impudent as to ask for a response to… what the Chinese say about their military buildup.

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Frank Luntz is running some absurd focus group on Fox and all I can think is: “Jesus Christ, none of you people are qualified to vote…”

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My old friend Dan Sieradski (how old? he designed the ANSI screen for my dial-up BBS. that old.) has a sympathetic but tough story in Jewcy about Ron Paul’s complicated relationship with some of his less savory supporters: According to the Lone Star Times, White Nationalists have become a noticeable source of financial contributions to […]

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I’m mostly—but not wholly—inclined to agree with McMegatron. Excepting Republican elected officials, the idea that vocal homophobes are motivated by their own latent homosexuality is usually spurious, and it’s unhelpful on numerous levels to act as though “well, I bet you’re a big queer” is an effective response to such people. I stop short of […]

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This animal rights discussion is reminding me how little worth saying can be said in blog posts. I think I’m done with this medium for a while.

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GamePolitics offers this transcript from a Larry King interview with “Dr. Phil” from shortly after the Virginia Tech killings: You cannot tell me – common sense tells you that if these kids are playing video games, where they’re on a mass killing spree in a video game, it’s glamorized on the big screen, it’s become […]

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