Just made a random last-minute decision to go check out these guys at Black Cat if anyone else is so disposed.

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Jason Kuznicki suggests that I might “outdo” him in terms of—well, I’m not sure, obscurity? indie cred?—in the quest for the “perfect album,” which he describes as: the rare compilation where every track is outstanding, and where all of them fit well together, such that you never want to skip a single song. But as […]

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Senate candidate Michael Steele’s campaign has a new ad out featuring his sister, who seeks to rebut an opponent’s ad (one of those starring Michael J. Fox) attacking him on stem cell research. According to the sister, who reveals that she herself suffers from MS, the other ad falsely claims Steele is opposed to such […]

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Your favorite eyeball-headed mystery men The Residents have a new project, a series of podcasts inspired by old “true crime” radio called The River of Crime. It can be gotten from Cordless or via iTunes.

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There’s a number of interesting revelations in an MSNBC preview of a forthcoming tell-all book by the former number two man at the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. Author David Kuo, himself a conservative Christian, is apparently peeved that Karl Rove’s inner circle would overtly court—and exploit—prominent Evangelicals, then refer to them behind closed doors as […]

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That Republicans are no longer the party of small government has long been obvious to just about everyone—bar, perhaps, Lewis Lapham, who invariably uses the monthly interruption of his septuagenarian slumbers to harumph out a 1994-vintage column about the merciless reign of the firebreathing laissez-faire ideologues. It’s almost two years since David Brooks articulated the […]

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You really would have the best laptops on the market if you could manage to make them go 8 months or so without requiring some kind of major overhaul. The Apple Store calls. Again.

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The folks at The American Spectator giddily report on the revelation that some of the key intelligence relied upon in foiling the recent London bombing plot was obtained by torture in Pakistan. Conclusive refutation, say they, of the argument that in addition to being inhuman, torture doesn’t work. But I think they seriously misapprehend that […]

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In response to immigration minimalists who worry about the stress influxes of poor immigrants put on social programs, libertarians are fond of responding that the problem, then, is with the programs and not the immigrants. In the May issue of the Atlantic, Clive Crook makes the point with the emphasis shifted slightly (subsc.): On the […]

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Aww, they’re so cute! (Hat tip: Boing Boing)

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