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The Moral Failings of Modern Conservatism
Republican Senator Rob Portman has a gay son, and as a result he has come down firmly in support of gay marriage: Knowing that my son is gay prompted me to consider the issue from another perspective:...
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Only the Mets – A Continuing Series
Jordany Valdespin, the Mets’ probable second baseman, doesn’t apparently care very much for cups. He should: The Mets utilityman exited yesterday’s exhibition game against the Tigers after he was hit...
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The Horrible People on the News (Updated)
“Suck it, losers! I’ll never leave you alone!” Charles Pierce has heard enough from the well-fed elites who have spent the better part of the last week bloviating about the costs of war and whether or...
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On the Harlem Shake and Authenticity
Prior to watching Melissa Harris-Perry’s breakdown of the “Harlem Shake,” I hadn’t seen any of the virals. But I am struck by Harris-Perry’s account of cultural appropriation and racial/geographical...
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Things We’re Enjoying VI
Modeled on the Slate Culture Gabfest‘s weekly endorsements segment, each Friday we recommend things we’ve been reading, watching, listening to, playing, eating, and ultimately enjoying over the past...
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The Well-Aged Essay
In keeping with my endorsement on Friday to bring back the use of the good old-fashioned pun, I’d like to make a further push toward all-things-vintage by making the case, in this post, for the...
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On Glenn Greenwald.
Everywhere I turn today, I see Glenn Greenwald and his intellectual integrity taking a beating. First I saw Josh Marshall, in his very politic manner, discuss how ZDT was not, as it turns out, all that...
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Expect a Modest Victory for Marriage Equality
For explication of today’s oral arguments on Prop 8, you could do worse than SCOTUS blog. Tom Goldstein at the aforementioned site believes that the Prop 8 case will ultimately be dismissed because...
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Enjoying Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Travels
I suppose this post will be redundant, because I simply want to call attention to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s beautiful series of blog entries about his first trip to France–his first trip out of the U.S.–and...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About MOOCs.
Everyone’s talking about MOOCs. The Chronicle Of Higher Education can’t go five minutes without using the acronym. We’ve discussed them at length ourselves. But while it’s always been obvious that...
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A Change Is Gonna Come
The only shit that’s left behind. Little known outside the confines of cushy athletic department offices, a trial that has the potential to rock the foundation of college athletics is set to be decided...
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Fugazi, Repeater
“There are no more races to be run, there are not numbers left to be won. Everybody’s down, we pulled each other down. There never was a truth to be found. We are all bigots, so full of hatred, we...
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Things We’re Enjoying VII
After a week hiatus, our weekly column in which we recommend things we’ve been reading, watching, listening to, playing, and eating is back. So without further ado, here’s what we’ve been enjoying....
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Sometimes Accidental Racism isn’t that Accidental
The recent collaboration between Brad Paisley and LL Cool J is still making waves throughout the blogosphere/twitterverse/interwebs, and rightfully so. It’s simultaneously hilarious and dreadful. And...
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Cojones
Rand Paul said this, in a speech at Howard University, by way of explanation for how the party of “The Great Emancipator” lost the black vote to the party of Jeff Davis: I think what happened during...
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Things We’re Enjoying VIII
What have we been reading, watching, listening to, playing, and eating this week? Read on! Marian An allergic reaction to all wheat-based alcohols – distilled or otherwise – leaves me with very limited...
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Wicked.
Admittedly, this is probably in bad taste: “A campaign by leftists to push the song “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead” from “The Wizard Of Oz” up the charts as a rebuke to Thatcher and her Conservative...
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“Can You Get to That”
If anybody needs cheering up this morning, tomorrow, or anytime this lifetime, I sincerely recommend you check out one of the greatest songs of the twentieth century performed by one of the greatest...
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The Echo Chamber.
The usually unflappable President Obama was pissed off today, after the United States Senate failed to pass any legislation reforming American gun laws despite overwhelming public support for such...
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The GOP Doesn’t Get “Identity Politics”
Over the past few months, I’ve been routinely shocked by the GOP’s seemingly desperate search for an African American figurehead. It seems crazy, superficial, and, yes, racist to assume that blacks...
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