A look at Florida’s anti-gay adoption statue, “All Happy Families.”

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Since all the cool kids are doing it, the results of hitting “party shuffle” on my music library: 1. Always on My Mind – Phantom Planet 2. Novette Number 1 in D Flat (Movement 3) – Moondog 3. Reformat – Les Savy Fav 4. Pass Me By – Pete Yorn 5. Friendship Station – Le […]

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Will has penned a response in rather muted tones to the post below. Now, I’d avoided visiting Will’s intentions there, but in the response we get a short account of what was behind the original “men need women to be women” post: [T]he blank slate view…fails to help us understand ourselves by assuming that sexual […]

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Mad props to P.J. Doland for recommending the Grado SR-60 headphones. They’re the low-end phones from the Brooklyn-based audiophiles’supplier, and said audiophiles are apparently near unianimous in agreeing that they’re a steal at $70, providing the sort of sound quality you only find at much, much higher prices from other manufacturers. And I believe it. […]

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Shawn Macomber’s American Spectator review of Christopher Hitchens’ fine collection Love, Poverty, and War called my attention to a great quotation from the introduction that I’d missed when reading it the first time: I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other ‘profession’ that would have me. I became […]

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At the close of an otherwise sound post, Will Wilkinson tosses out the following—I suspect just to see how long it would take his blogger friends to take the bait: [M]en need women to be women and women need men to be men. And if you don’t know what that means, or know and object […]

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Like Yglesias, I thought this mash-up of “99 Problems” and “99 Red Balloons” played at the Black Cat last night was pretty cool. Except, not having given it that much thought, I’d just sort of assumed the DJ was mixing it on the fly, which seemed really impressive. I suppose it should’ve occured to me […]

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Apparently, various music bloggers will be spinning indie rock backstage at the Black Cat this evening. Sounds potentially amusing; it’s free, so I may have to go take a peek.

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Ok, a super petty bitch about Mac’s OS X: Why on earth would you build in FTP functionality to the Finder, but leave it half-assed, enabling you to mount an FTP server in read mode only, so you can download, but not upload? How much harder would that extra functionality really have been? Yeah, yeah, […]

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You know, I think I’ve got an inkling why some mainstream journalists seem to get so rankled by blogs. It’s not just that all that irritating fact checking and bias spotting. It’s that if you tend to write any kind of more abstract news-analysis type stuff, then unless you’re a serious expert on the topic […]

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