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Me and Niko down in Bohan (a true story)

20jazzfunkgreats consider it a crying shame that what could well be the crowning achievement of British popular culture this century, GTA IV is being greeted with all sorts of desultory and...

So... Will Clinton Reject or Denounce Him?

Not long after Eliot Spitzer took office, Radley Balko wrote in disgust about Eliot Spitzer's arrogance—particularly how he called himself "fucking steamroller." If the metaphor...

All About Ron Bailey

The latest issue of DoubleThink, the magazine of America's Future Foundation, has an in-depth and very interesting story about reason's own science correspondent, Ronald Bailey, and why he changed...

Sanctimonious Shithead

Michelle Obama: ‘For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I Am Really Proud of My Country’What we have learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. … for the first time in my...

Basketball coach won't cave to pressure from the ultra-conservative Archbishop of St. Louis

Looks like the Archbishop of St. Louis, the one who wanted to deny communion to John Kerry in 2004, has met his match. The basketball coach of St. Louis University, Rick Majerus, supports Hillary...

Europe’s Anti-Americanism: It’s About Power, Not Policy

How can America improve its image abroad? Answers to this question are being bandied by all of the presidential hopefuls. Hillary Clinton says she would “send a message heard across the world: The...

Conventional (Un)Wisdom

There is no better place to look for the Conventional Wisdom, which more often than not is both unwise and wrong, than the editorial pages of the mainstream media, and the editorials there are...

Segregation-Era Baseball Records Need Asterisk

DeWayne Wickham on Tuesday wrote an op-ed piece for USA Today that I wholeheartedly agree with, and the matter is so important to me that I felt it deserved more than just a diary. Wickham writes...

If Bonds has to be served with papers, has Bacsik already volunteered to do it?

Just a short thing about Bonds media coverage; since I really can’t stand to read sanctimonious drivel about how either Bonds/steroids ruined baseball or how Bonds is the victim of a...

Brain Jazz: Great Performances of the Blogsphere, 1

I follow more than 360 different blogs and websites on a daily basis (Curse you, Google Reader!). As a result I -- at the least -- scan many prominent writers and find much to admire as well as more...