I’m sorry, I’ve got good friends from the state, and obviously, they like the place, but this article has me pissed off: New Jersey Taxing Downloaded Music and Video Thanks to its $4.5 billion budget deficit, New Jersey’s just instituted a 7% tax for online purchases and downloads of music and videos. For you, that means iTunes, Napster, and other stores are going to be a bit more expensive. No

Originally published in 2005, but just as timely as ever. Sen. Kennedy on the Future of the Democratic Party Senator Kennedy: I’d like to thank you for inviting me to the Press Club today. Nobody invites me anywhere any more and I was starting to get a little worried. (Laughter.) I’m serious. I had to muscle my way in through the door. Terry McAuliffe can do me. (Nervous laughter.) I’m

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Pamela’s Tits Atlas Shrugs has the story. UPDATE: apparently not a protest, at least against the Pope: A hijacking episode that began over Greek airspace has ended in Italy with all 113 people aboard released and both unarmed Turkish hijackers in the custody of Italian aviation authorities, Italian officials said. Earlier reports on Tuesday that the hijackers were protesting Pope Benedict XVI’s planned visit to Turkey were apparently incorrect; authorities

Ahoy, Chickenhawkiburtonfoleyapoligistmongers! Just dropping by to remind you that while you flabby racist keyboard commandos fight the nasty brown sandaled menace (whose very robes are woven just to taunt the West!) from the hot zone of your Office Max pleather Executive’s chair, I’ll be pulling thorny weeds out of the backyard sod lines, then trying to figure out why the combo ceiling fan / overhead light I just installed in

”I don’t want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it.” This is the future face of the Democratic Party. Over at the Cato Institute Sexiest Man Alive, Markos Moulitsas, tries unsuccessfully to make the case for a so-called ‘Libertarian’ Democrat. Apparently, he’s noticed that some of our hallowed rights have come into question in the last five years and that the Republicans are spending money like it’s

Two Weeks Ago: Mom: “You know, honey, you should probably find some other interests. It’s not healthy sitting at the computer all the time.” Me: “I don’t sit at the computer all the time.” ************** Yesterday: Mom: “Has it really been since Saturday that you’ve blogged?” Me: “I’ve been busy, Ma.”

A.S. is the Quagmire Guy.  Every week he answers your questions. Q: Dear Quagmire Guy, My fiance and I are planning our honeymoon.  He wants to go to Hawaii, and I’d like to go on a Caribbean cruise.  How can we work out this impasse? Beth R., Forest Hills, IL A: Beth, You and your fiance will never agree on anything.  You ought to call off the wedding, as hard

sociological fieldwork involving leaving sex dolls in public parks: An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens. Based on the results, he talks about issues of digital divide, computer education and kids, the dynamics of the third world getting online. New Delhi physicist Sugata Mitra has a radical proposal for bringing his country’s next generation into

John Keats, the youngest of the great Romantic poets, had a superb lyric gift, honed by close study of literary predecessors such as Dante, Milton and Shakespeare.  One of the things that sets him apart from some of his English Romantic contemporaries is the degree to which he studied the technical question how his predecessors achieved their effects, rather than focusing more exclusively on the question what they were attempting