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By L. Russell Allen - Nov 21st, 2008 at 5:02 pmMy faithful readers know that I can’t get enough of the game Rock Band. And who can blame me? The game’s designers, Harmonix, work tirelessly…
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Even Princeton
By Emily Rutherford - Nov 21st, 2008 at 4:26 pmWhen students from Princeton joined representatives from other universities in New York City for a major march against the Vietnam War, they carried a banner…
Taste We Can Believe In
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 21st, 2008 at 3:51 pmYou know he’s a baller. You know he’s a nerd. But did you know Barack Obama is a picky eater, too (via)?
Obama was abstemious.…
Obsessed: Of Montreal, Milk, and Cyndi Lauper
By Bradley Portnoy - Nov 21st, 2008 at 3:10 pmCabinet speculation. It’s like celebrity gossip for policy wonks.
- Dylan Matthews
I recently picked up a copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s newest album, 8…
What Iraq Victory?
By Daniel Strauss - Nov 21st, 2008 at 2:33 pmWhat an odd day to celebrate victory in Iraq as Dana Perino is doing. She said “that the conditions are such now that we are…
Green Lanes
By Daniel Strauss - Nov 21st, 2008 at 2:12 pmI’ve really been on an unusually large urbanism craze this week. Don’t get me wrong: I like it, I just don’t usually think about it…
Humans Are Weird
By Jesse Singal - Nov 21st, 2008 at 1:40 pmThe Economist has a fascinating article on some experiments that appear to bolster the “broken windows” theory of crime:
A PLACE that is covered in…
See You Later, Faith in Humanity
By Jesse Singal - Nov 21st, 2008 at 1:14 pmGizmodo:
Here’s a story nobody likes to see. 19-year-old Abraham K. Biggs overdosed on pills on a live webcam stream before hundreds of people on…
I Couldn’t Make This Up If I Tried
By Jesse Singal - Nov 21st, 2008 at 12:26 pmThere’s no way to sugarcoat this, so I’ll just out and say it: Sarah Palin gave an entire interview while turkeys were being slaughtered directly…
Youth Politics, Lebanon-style
By Jesse Singal - Nov 21st, 2008 at 11:45 amHezbollah is so hot right now:
RIYAQ, Lebanon — On a Bekaa Valley playing field gilded by late-afternoon sun, hundreds of young men wearing Boy…
Syzygy
By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 21st, 2008 at 10:38 amNot only is it an awesome word that I never get to use, but it also describes the current state of the healthcare debate. Watch…
The Race Chasm, Re-revisited
By Ned Resnikoff - Nov 21st, 2008 at 10:01 amAfter the election, Mark Schmitt graded some of the models people used to predict the election, and gave David Sirota’s race chasm hypothesis a C-,…
The Almighty Creator Weighs In
By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 20th, 2008 at 5:41 pmSo it seems that God Herself has finally decided to get off her duff and chime in, via an amicus brief, on the California same-sex…
Why Is Obama Leaking Now?
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 20th, 2008 at 5:12 pmThe Obama presidential campaign was incredibly, frustratingly closed. There was very little access to the press, and consequently few leaks.
So it’s puzzling to me…
