Q: When is a war not a “war”? A: When we call it something else, silly! Really. Why so dense?

It ain’t Ric Caric-level pseudo-intellectual foppery. But it’s getting close: From dancehall to raving, club cultures to sound systems, disco to techno, breakbeat to psytrance, hip hop to dubstep, IDM to noisecore, nortec to bloghouse, global EDMCs are a shifting spectrum of scenes, genres, and aesthetics. What is the role of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, religion and spirituality in these formations? How does existing critical theory enable understanding of EDMCs,

Noted this yesterday in the comments, but I figure I should probably give it a place of prominence. By the way, anyone remember how the useful idiots on the left — and more than a few of “intellectuals” on the right — used to scoff at the notion that we have, in our country, people who are actively engaged in trying to destroy sovereignty and impose transnational progressivism on us

Origami. If only because it gives you an excuse to sit around buck naked under a nice silk kimono. Plus, swans! Doumo Arigatou Gozaimasu!

Misleading rhetoric seems to be all the rage these days, I must say. ALG: According to AAA, the average price of a gallon of gas in America reached $3.55 last week. That’s up 43 cents from a month ago – the second-fastest spike on record. All told, gas prices have increased by 67 percent since Mr. Obama took office – and as the global economy grapples with a nuclear crisis