The American Mind

GASP! This might be the first time I’ve seen Nick Gillespie not sporting a leather jacket.

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Did you know Democrats like the designated hitter rule more than Republicans? Two professors “discovered” it, therefore it’s true:
In the May 2007 Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Christopher Zorn, a Penn State professor, and Jeff Gill, of Washington University, demonstrated that Democrats tend to support the designated-hitter rule more than Republicans or independents do. Using [...]

On the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing Tom Wolfe posits the lack of a philosophy kept us from shooting past the Moon:
Everybody, including Congress, was caught up in the adrenal rush of it all. But then, on the morning after, congressmen began to wonder about something that hadn’t dawned on them since [...]

Changes in the book publishing industry have made the literary escort an endangered species. Humorist Joe Queenan tells us why he thought they were some of the best parts of book tours (another endangered species). I happen to know the woman from Milwaukee Queenan mentions. When bringing around authors to the Barnes and Noble I [...]

Peter Kafka Michael Jackson’s funeral “the third-biggest Web event of the year.” It’s behind President Obama’s inauguration and word of Jackson’s death.
“Michael Jackson’s Last Performance on the Web: Big, But Not Obama Big” [via Techmeme]

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I wish the Marines the best of luck in taming an important part of Afghanistan:
Thousands of U.S. Marines descended upon the volatile Helmand River valley in helicopters and armored convoys early Thursday morning, mounting an operation that represents the first large-scale test of the U.S. military’s new counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan.
The operation will involve about [...]

Gee, I’ll be going to Wisconsin next week but will miss watching the qualifying for Miss Beer Cart. A competition featuring driving a golf cart through an obstacle course, mixing bloody marys, and other “talents”? Why can’t ABC put this on television instead of Wipeout?

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