Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Talented Tara Sue. 4:37:32 PM   permalink   comment []

Roger Ebert has a question about an anti-evolution "B.C." comic strip, Matt Mendelsohn has some followup. Related. 4:34:07 PM   permalink   comment []

Stephen Metcalf in Slate: "Springsteen is no longer a musician. He's a belief system. And, like any belief system worth its salt, he brooks no in-between. You're either in or you're out. This has solidified Bruce's standing with his base, for whom he remains a god of total rock authenticity. But it's killed him with everyone else. To a legion of devout nonbelievers -- they're not saying Bruuuce, they're booing -- Bruce is more a phenomenon akin to Dianetics or Tinkerbell than 'the new Dylan,' as the Columbia Records promotions machine once hyped him." 8:22:57 AM   permalink   comment []

Blogs in the classroom at Duke. UPDATE: More from Munger. 8:19:34 AM   permalink   comment []

Jon Lowder: Who cares if newspapers die? 8:18:33 AM   permalink   comment []

Problems with John Tierney's NYT column this morning, starting with the way he paints the aristo-Bushes as earnest yeopersons. Also, if there was a coded message in Laura Bush's humor, it was a stiff-arm to the prigs and zealots who think they now run the country, not those dreaded liberals. Tierney of Yale and the Times -- I wonder if he's ever watched an episode of Hee-Haw -- says the effete blue-staters just don't understand real Americans, but that's not the way it looks out here in real America. 8:16:14 AM   permalink   comment []