I read a Chuck Klosterman column in Esquire a few months back–or, possibly in his collection IV–in which he mentioned, off-handedly, that downloading MP3s for free is stealing. He didn’t...
When I go home, people ask me: ‘Hey Hoot…why d’ya do it, man? Why? You some kinda war junkie?’ I won’t say a goddamn word. Why? They won’t understand. They...
Hey, remember when I celebrated the NBA’s playoff system for being a meritocracy? Yeah, not so much in the South African Olympics teams. From the New York Times Olympics blog:...
When Raiders of the Lost Ark first hit theaters, critics were largely kind, and most noted (and tended not to mind) its derivative nature–as Vincent Canby wrote in the New...
I see Reihan has picked up on Ron Rosenbaum’s Slate piece on white liberal guilt. I appreciate what Reihan is saying when he writes “I mean, would you rather be...
Once upon a time, South Park aired an episode where Butters was slowly driven insane by the fact that every plan his evil alter ego, Professor Chaos, came up with...
