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You might be a Christian hipster
Blogger/writer/film critic Brett McCracken has been busy at work on a book about Christian hipsters. We know this because he’s been posting some of his thoughts on the subject at his blog The Search. Just today, he took on the risky ritual of (the horror) defining the Christian hipster. He deserves props for opening himself up to a potential backlash from the label-jars-not-people-crowd while more or less capturing in a […]
Jim Calhoun’s tirade
Apparently, some lawmakers in Connecticut aren’t too happy with the way the state’s highest paid employee acted in what has probably become the most viral post-game press conference video since “I’m a man, I’m 40.“
Bottled Watergate
The horror.
They are not socialists
A federal bank takeover is a bad thing obviously. I wonder though if we conservatives understand clearly enough why it is a bad thing. It’s not because we are living through an enactment of the early chapters of Atlas Shrugged. It’s because the banks are collapsing. Obama, Pelosi, et al are big-spending, high-taxing liberals. They […]
Dusting off the magnum opus
Somehow it’s become an inevitability, this business of reperforming your famous album. Lou Reed did it with Berlin, Brian Wilson did it with Pet Sounds, Roger Waters did it with Dark Side of the Moon, Arthur Lee (RIP) did it with Love’s Forever Changes. Even Anthrax did it, with Among the Living. The years pass, […]
The John Edwards of soccer
Do you remember how before he finally admitted to cheating on his cancer-stricken wife former presidential candidate John Edwards was dogged by a scandal involving $400 haircuts? Well, Russian football star Andrei Arshavin might just be the pre-sex scandal John Edwards of the soccer world. The recent Arsenal addition has reportedly refused out of superstition to […]
Oil Can Comeback
All the 49-year-old Oil Can Boyd wants is a chance. For real.
An act of political genius
“The expression ‘create or save,’ which has been used regularly by the President and his economic team, is an act of political genius. You can measure how many jobs are created between two points in time. But there is no way to measure how many jobs are saved. Even if things get much, much worse, […]