Glenn Reynolds says Ross Douthat is a good pick for the New York Times. I admire Glenn because he knows a good deal about a great many things. But he is a libertarian. Douthat is being billed as a conservative. If the Times wanted to bill Douthat as a Republican, or perhaps even as Right-leaning -...

Late last year, just before Bank of America closed a deal to buy a failing Merrill Lynch, the BoA's executives signed off on $4 billion in bonus payments to Merrill Lynch executives and senior employees. This, after we taxpayers had poured more than $45 billion into saving these incompetent and/or c...

Governor Paterson has announced a deal with party leaders that will allow him to withdraw his proposed taxes on non-diet soda, music downloads, porn downloads, movie and concert tickets, golf courses, cigars, massages, beer, wine, and more — all seemingly predicated on a notion of making New Yo...

People do love the ukulele these days, from Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele — who is just a bit too adorable for my tastes — to a seemingly endless parade of YouTube videos featuring amateur uke takes on popular songs of today. Still, occasionally overly-precious Swede Jens Lekman, ...

In a rare show of endurance and stick-to-itiveness, I have concluded my 10-week program of watching all five seasons of "The Wire." It wasn't easy. I ventured late into the night, consuming piles of burritos and pizza slices, quaffing unpretentious but still premium brews and humbler vintages of red...

It's been about six months since last we heard from Rebecca Kopycinski's — aka Nuda Veritas — "monthly" local music TV show Burly Song. Due to time and money constraints, it seems biannual editions will be par for the course for the foreseeable future, which is too bad. It'...

Since Instapundit linked Fabius Maximus yesterday, I've invested considerable time clicking through several short, concisely written posts available through convenient indexing at the site. Here is FM's latest. Make of FM what you will. It's likely you'll either dismiss the posts entirely, or open...

Filed under: Audio/Video Back in September, we said it was only a matter of time before the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) went after RealDVD, the software that lets you copy entire DVDs onto your computer for personal use. Studios are currently involved in a heated lawsuit with RealNe...

Dovetailing along the recent emphasis on putting a good face to Lutheranism and the successful revamp of St. John’s of the Cove, it seems timely to discuss what goes on church web sites. One might not be able to judge a book by its cover, but a web site can provide good insight into a church. ...

Give credit to Jim DeRogatis for being a relentless pain-in-the-ass to Bono in the middle of a glad-handing radio event last night in Chicago. While I imagine Bono would have preferred to discuss whether the new U2 album is just a great 2009 album or the greatest, DeRogatis decided to ask a series o...