The Cool Kids: Muldia Lileks Berg Insomnomaniac Zee n' Lig Malkin Footballs Frank J. Whittle Muir Dr. DNA Belmont Geras Barber Totten Levant Lies Anti-CAIR McMillan Liberal Utopia Iraq Graham Remal / Brown Wannabe Voices O'Malley Burns Medlock Jihad Watch Burkhart Lumina Important Thinkers: ...

Regular readers may have detected a change of tone around here lately. I hadn’t detected it until my last post, after which I scrolled back and saw a lot of ranting and a few brief news items. At which point I thought… “Yuck.” This might be a good time to explain where the na...

The Cool Kids: Muldia Lileks Berg Insomnomaniac Zee n' Lig Malkin Footballs Frank J. Whittle Muir Dr. DNA Belmont Geras Barber Totten Levant Lies Anti-CAIR McMillan Liberal Utopia Iraq Graham Remal / Brown Wannabe Voices O'Malley Burns Medlock Jihad Watch Burkhart Lumina Important Thinkers: ...

Chicago indie rock mainstays The Sea and Cake (I still love their second album, Nassau, which is now pushing fifteen years on my shelf) have struck it rich, or struck it semi-rich, or at the very least can now afford a higher quality level of libations, as they've licensed their tune "Jacking the Ba...

Recently I was lamenting the sorry state of my music affairs to my wholly sympathetic spouse... Me: I like how I have to cancel Sirius but you have an iPod and that Squeezebox thing. The Wife: I like how I have to gestate two parasites for nine months. Get an iPhone. Me: I already have a phone, why ...

Jason Calacanis has quite the justification for employing a felon. The professional skeptic in me interpreted it as superficial admissions immersed in irrelevant distractions standing in for valid justification. On the other hand.... it is tempting to want to be compassionate, but there are so many ...

Peggle, the PopCap pseudo-pachinko casual addictive-as-heck hit, has been available on the PC for a good long while, but last week it came out on the Nintendo DS, and this week it hits XBox Live Arcade. It’s an incredibly fun game and I urge everyone to give it a go, but is it a casual game, o...

The Cool Kids: Muldia Lileks Berg Insomnomaniac Zee n' Lig Malkin Footballs Frank J. Whittle Muir Dr. DNA Belmont Geras Barber Totten Levant Lies Anti-CAIR McMillan Liberal Utopia Iraq Graham Remal / Brown Wannabe Voices O'Malley Burns Medlock Jihad Watch Burkhart Lumina Important Thinkers: ...

Star Wars, episodes one, two, and three. The prequels. Oh man. I mean, every joke that could be made about them has already been made, right? At this point, all you have to do is say "Star Wars prequels" to get a smirk out of most people. But what would you say if I offered up the view that, really,...

Metal Weekend on VH1 Classic has taught (and in some cases, re-taught) me many things: + Appetite for Destruction is that rarest of albums: note perfect wire to wire + Loudness had, like, six videos + That Metal Show is more informative than the BBC and C-SPAN combined + Rik Emmett really made some....