Recorded at Legend Studio, Pascagoula, Mississippi, June 1979, but never released.* “Got To Get HIM Into My Life” I was alone, I took a ride, I didn’t know what I would find there Another road where maybe I could see another kind of SIGN there Ooh, then I suddenly see HIM Ooh, and it’s true that I need HIM Every single day of my life HE didn’t run, HE doesn’t

To Ann Kellett, for David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Bret Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park, and Walter Benn Michaels’ The Shape of the Signifier.  Looking forward to diving into each of these in its turn just as soon as I buy a nice satin smoking jacket.  And maybe one of those fancy leather reading chairs with the big rivets. — Because it’s impossible not to feel smart sitting in one of those

In a Sunday post noting the capture of the al Qaeda leader in Britain, I raised the following questions: […] should the leader of Britain’s al Qaeda be given what amounts to Geneva Convention protections / domestic civil liberties protections—especially in light of the recently foiled plan designed to bring down a score of airliners?  Or should the forces allied against Islamic terror be making other arrangements for his questioning?

From the Times Online: The government is discussing with airport operators plans to introduce a screening system that allows security staff to focus on those passengers who pose the greatest risk. The passenger-profiling technique involves selecting people who are behaving suspiciously, have an unusual travel pattern or, most controversially, have a certain ethnic or religious background. The system would be much more sophisticated than simply picking out young men of

Andrew Sullivan, man of nuance: If you’re a Republican in Tennessee and you are in a tough race, what do you do? Hey, your party isn’t a political organization; it’s God’s Own Party: A Christian prayer group is hoping to provide Republican gubernatorial nominee Jim Bryson with some divine assistance during his campaign. The “Bryson Prayer Force” is inviting Christians to join its current 80 members in praying regularly for

If ever there was an incident that could shake my resistance to race-based affirmative action it happened Saturday afternoon at the Flat Irons Mall in Broomfield.  While visiting an upscale hipster clothier (I’m in the market for a summer sport coat / slacks combo), the salesperson helping me—a lovely young woman of maybe twenty-five who, at first blush, didn’t appear to harbor any racist sentiments—let the mask slip while trying

Via LGF, a look at how the AP (as well as organizations like the tax-payer funded NPR), provides “expert” commentary without providing necessary context — in essence, acting as uncritical conduits for what amounts to enemy propaganda. —Which it’s possible is the product of intellectual or logistical laziness (as well as a desire to appear “neutral,” which to the transnational progressive is the new black), but which could just as

Michael Yon appeared on Pundit Review Radio last night and offered a grim assessment of the conditions inside Iraq (particularly Baghdad).  You can hear his observations here.  I’d be interested to hear the various viewpoints of veterans and active-duty military in response to Yon’s assessments.  My sense (and it is only that; as an infamous chickenhawk, I am “inauthentic” when it comes to offering opinions on anything having to do

Via Major John, a look at how the “diversity” movement in the academy—which I’ve described on numerous occasions as anathema to classical liberalism and the product of a worldview that is, at its core, radically egalitarian and superficial (reducing as it does the human experience down to arbitrary cosmetic / physiological traits) — is growing in stature and influence, adding further to the already Orwellian atmosphere of institutes of higher