R. Kelly’s recent legal troubles – as well as the success of his magnum opus, “Trapped in the Closet” – tend to obscure his brilliant early work. But before TP3, there was Chocolate Factory. And before “Trapped,” there was “Ignition (Remix)”:
More Kelly-philia: my second favorite bad R. Kelly sex jam has [...]
Forget the terrorists – Google Earth poses a serious threat to the domestic cannabis industry. Shut it down!
Reason’s Nick Gillespie has some harsh words for DC:
D.C. was the world’s first Brasilia—a fake capital created just for political shenanigans. In many ways, the city still reveals its roots—or more precisely, its lack of roots. Unlike, say, Philadelphia or New York, the life here isn’t thick in the way it is in a city [...]
Lord, please grant the Old Dominion a well-deserved reprieve from the frightening prospect of Terry McAuliffe as governor.
I’m under no illusion that the market is a perfect mechanism for sorting out the good from the bad, but it’s a bit galling to find that another crummy mainstream conservative website has just launched in the wake of Culture11’s demise. Adding insult to injury, the New Ledger is helmed by none other than Benjamin [...]
Leaving aside the merits of his confused article in today’s Journal, it’s now abundantly clear that Rush Limbaugh would be an awful pick to replace Kristol’s Times column because he sucks at writing. I know that “heartland conservatives” scoff at aesthetic considerations, but a good columnist doesn’t make reading a chore. Stick to radio, Rush.
Can you feel emotionally invested in a publication? It sounds stupid, but when David Kuo and Conor Friedersdorf announced that Culture11 was closing up shop, I felt like I’d been punched in the gut. I just learned that a secretary at work was laid off a few days ago – she found out when her [...]
My brother’s in art school, and he occasionally sends me copies of projects he’s working on. I thought this movie poster was pretty cool:
Complete with obligatory “Ode to Joy” soundtrack, an awesome preview for a film about Nazi zombies:
The idea of prosecuting hate crimes has always seemed vaguely distasteful, but this sort of thing gives me pause (via):
Like countless other Americans that night, a group of young Staten Island men gathered on Nov. 4 to watch election results, and then took to the streets when it became clear that the country had elected [...]
It’s rare to stumble across an unambiguously racist comment on a putatively mainstream political website, so I was pretty shocked when this popped up (emphasis mine):
Setting aside the fact that Israel is a friend to the Western world while many Palestinians would prefer to see us dead, that Israel wants peace and the Palestinians want [...]
This full-throated attack on everyone’s favorite Piano Man is pretty brutal.
I think I agree with the substance of Ben Affleck’s complaint, but Newsweek’s rebuttal – complete with Gigli reference – is a total burn.
Sickness and a debate tournament at the Naval Academy prevented me from posting over the weekend, but now I’m back to full strength. While I doubt anyone outside of my immediate circle of friends cares, the tournament was pretty awesome, culminating in Mary Washington victories in both the JV and varsity divisions.
In completely unrelated news, [...]
I’m afraid that Jim Geraghty comes off best in this exchange, taking Andrew Sullivan’s eager young things to task for endorsing Obama’s plan to shut down Gitmo. Despite agreeing with Patrick Appel and Chris Bodenner on the merits of the issue, I think their argumentative approach is pretty unpersuasive. If moved to Leavenworth or South [...]
Peter effin’ Gabriel gets the nod for Best Original Song while the Academy stiffs Springsteen’s sublime “Wrestler?” Change rings hollow, America.
Walter Russell Mead surveys America’s great power competitors and finds them wanting.
Cataloguing the early losses from the financial crisis, it’s hard not to conclude that the central capitalist nations will weather the storm far better than those not so central. Emerging markets have been hit harder by the financial crisis than developed ones as investors [...]
Any site that has a bowler hat on the masthead gets my vote, but the newly-created League of Ordinary Gentlemen also happens to host several damn good writers. Check it out.
Before Jonah Goldberg and the rest of the NRO crew lay into the newly-ascendant Cult of Obama, they would do well to remember the last eight years of absurd Republican hero-worship.
