I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars, banging out crappy music. – Punk icon Iggy Pop, announcing he is doing a jazz album inspired by French literaure....

Neither Jeremy nor I were very impressed with Bill Maher’s pro-atheism documentary Religulous, though we both did groove to the film’s cool soundtrack. One of the things that I didn’t much like about the film was its ambush-style interviews and heavy editing to make its subjects lo...

Speaking of the new Nationals stadium, Reason editor-in-chief Matt Welch, a recent transplant to DC from the wrong coast, thinks the lengths the city went to to build it were deplorable. He links that to more mundane problems the city faces, such as its vermin problem. No, not that kind. The four-le...

From the same Reuters story quoted below, an interesting bit from Sir Mick Jagger: “When we were experimenting with drugs, little was known about the effects,” Jagger said. “In our time there were no rehab centres like today. Anyway, I did not know about them.” Sounding a bit...

The suits who run the National Football League have found a new, innovative way to look like a bunch of greedy bastards. They are now cracking down on churches that host Superbowl parties. Seriously: The Super Bowl, the most secular of American holidays, has long been popular among churches. With pa...