There is a simple, one-word explanation for why Obamacare is now the law of our land: cu...
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Two weeks ago, I wrote Until now, the world that existed at the beginning of Mad Men has s...
I dedicate this post to Tom Friedman, one of the most pedestrian, overrated intellects o...
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You may have heard about a little controversy from the latest episode of Mad Men. The fi...
If you want to understand everything that’s gone wrong in pop music over the last 20 yea...
A lot has happened in the pop music world in the last nine days, so herewith follows a r...
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There may be an inverse relationship between the health of the economy and the quality of ...
One of the few guitarists who deserves to be called legendary, Hubert Sumlin, died yesterd...
No, I don't have the answer to this large and troubling question, but one of my favorite u...
About five years ago, Paste magazine asked 50 music industry professionals to name their f...
Interesting interview with Aldous Huxley, describing how the tyranny of 1984 can slide int...
You've may have already seen this story but the (literally) odds-on favorite for this year...
Not to sound like an old codger, but movies aren’t as good as they used to be. Oh sur...
If you remember A Mighty Wind, that fine mockumentary of the 1960s folk music scene, you'l...
It's not every day that an ode to liberty is waiting in your e-mail inbox, so kudos to J...
This is an interesting quiz to see how many final movie images you recognize, from a websi...
Mark Twain once said that everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything a...
By Larry Kaufmann The culture war has taken some interesting turns lately, but few are mo...
Vladimir Putin is a man of many talents (some decidedly unsavory), but until I saw this vi...
By Larry Kaufmann This is coming a little late, I know, but I’d like to second the sent...
That's not a bad summary of this blog post, which shows Ann Althouse listening to a podcas...
