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I’m a sucker for good powerpop, so I have high expectations for this supergroup made up of members of Cheap Trick, Fountains of Wayne, Smashing Pumpkins, and Hanson, called Tinted Windows.

h/t Amazon, via Instapundit, and apologoes for disagreeing with Moe Lane.
Still, I have to ask, what’s up with this show and its host. They [...]

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Feb 28th, 2009 | Filed under Music

Reihan Salam on Hosea of Top Chef:
Many moons ago, Hosea mislaid his pork. The gang rallied around and saved his pork, and he won the elimination challenge. And you know who helped rather a lot? Stefan. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the “12 Days of Christmas Episode.” Hosea was throwing a [...]

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Feb 27th, 2009 | Filed under Food, Television

I’m glad Don Surber wrote this up:
A liberal admits to the racist attitudes of the liberal elites against the “white ethnics” who do the dirty work of earning the money.
I ignored the racial slur by Charles Lemos, a blogger at My DD, this weekend because it was just some blogger (although he is fairly popular). [...]

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Feb 25th, 2009 | Filed under Economy, Politics

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Feb 24th, 2009 | Filed under Politics, Social Bonds

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Feb 19th, 2009 | Filed under The Funny
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This was a somewhat uneven episode, possibly because it too much going on. There was (1) the main story about looking for the last Nazi, (2) the story about Molly in the fake airplane company office, being confronted by Carson (the “uncle” of Grey’s serious but very short-term girlfriend Joss, aka Switchblade), (3) the story of [...]

Feb 19th, 2009 | Filed under Television, The Unit
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UPDATE: March 20, 2009
I’m getting a lot of search traffic for this post today. If you are interested, you might also want to read my discussion of what is left to be explained in the final episode which you can find here.
Friday Night’s episode, “No Exit,” went a long way towards assuring me that [...]

Feb 15th, 2009 | Filed under Battlestar Galactica, Sci Fi, Television

So much for the idea that the cool, conceited, competence of Obama and his team would raise our standing in the world and make our allies respect us again. Yeesh, even Italy is lecturing us about fiscal discipline, and Italy’s debt exceeds its gross national product.
“If the problem is an excess of debt, the [...]

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Feb 15th, 2009 | Filed under Economy, Politics

President Obama specifically asked Representative Schock’s constituents to contact Schock to urge him to vote for the bill. It was a total failure:

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Feb 15th, 2009 | Filed under Economy, Politics

Thought-provoking article on divorce and society. I myself had no idea that unilateral divorce was possible until I studied for the bar. Here are the first few paragraphs; read it all:
G. K. Chesterton once observed that the family serves as the principal check on government power, and he suggested that someday the family [...]

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Feb 15th, 2009 | Filed under Social Bonds