World Cup 2010

The opening of the quadrennial World Cup soccer tournament is two weeks away. Many of my American readers probably don’t care all that much, and as such I would like to talk to you about why you should. Imagine, if you will, a glorious sporting spectacle in which a man can run five miles regardless [...]

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More musical musings

So another decade of music has now passed. Thank God. Since the end of World War II, if not earlier, every decade brought one if not two large-scale movements in the evolution of popular music, but surely the 2000s was the least inspired and most insipid of the bunch. And the scary thing is, it’s [...]

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Ding dong?

So the big news of the day is Sarah Palin’s resignation as governor of Alaska. Supposedly, Palin has grown sufficiently sick of being savaged by the media as to warrant resignation. MSNBC is running a report that says she wants to be out of politics entirely, to take the time to raise her family. Of [...]

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Damn Specter stealing my thunder

Oh, sure. I put up a politics-related post, and some misfit senator has to go and make a party switch. Way to go, Arlen Specter. Thanks for ensuring that you’re the only political thing anyone wants to read about on a day when I posted about something entirely else. Aw, who am I kidding? It’s [...]

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