Not sure Sean Hannity would recommend these, so forgive me. But here’s the stuff I’m listening to. 1. So That I Don’t Miss You – Nadine 2. The Ballad of Naked Man – Butthole Surfers 3. In Spite of Ourselves – John Prine and Iris DeMent 4. Faithless Love – J.D. Souther 5. Gimme Back My Dog – Slobberbone 6. Gravity’s Gone – Drive-by Truckers 7. The Man Comes Around

Melissa McEwan at Shakespeare’s Sister is justifiably appalled and disgusted with the details of a putative rape that are emerging from Minnesota. It appears that the victim was accosted and raped in the hallway of an apartment building while people passed by in the hallway, and tenants emerged to gaze upon the scene, only to turn their backs and return to their rooms. The accused is named Rage Ibrahim. Locke

…but rather the cover-up. (h/t CJ Burch) All of which reminds me of my own brush with the professional class. Ah, yes. Good times, those… **** update: Not at all related, really, unless you want strain to make a connection. But telling, nevertheless.

From Radley Balko, writing at Reason’s Hit and Run: You have lawmakers who feel they’re above the law. And who at the same time are criminalizing anything and everything they find tacky, repugnant, or immoral. Forgive the lofty language, but you know what? This isn’t healthy for our republic. Nor children or other living things — though ironically, it is always in the children’s name that criminalization of “anything and

I’m off to jump around a bit, so in the mean time, here’s Terry Hastings, via email. The study he’s covering is a couple months old, but I don’t recall reading it before, so it’s new to me: I thought Air America failed because the marketplace wasn’t buying what they were selling. Turns out no one listened because they weren’t required to. But, cheer up, the good folks at americanprogress

Sometimes a drawing is just a drawing. Actually, I take that back. Nearly every single freaking time a drawing is just a drawing — particulary when it’s done by a thirteen year old with no evident psychological problems. And on the rare times when a drawing isn’t just a drawing, it is still just a drawing — though one that perhaps takes on import in retrospect, should certain interpretive methods

From USA Today/AP: A Mexican Senate committee passed a measure Wednesday urging President Felipe Calderon to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the deportation of an illegal migrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year. The committee also approved a scholarship to help her 8-year-old U.S.-born son, Saul, who is an American citizen and stayed in the United States. Elvira Arellano, 32, became an

Andrew Anthony, the erstwhile liberal whose book criticizing modern liberalism has forever condemned him to apostate status among the finer classes, nevertheless continues his broadside, undeterred. From the Guardian’s Comment is Free: […] a large section of liberalism [has] become contorted by a reluctance to entertain reality. And also that this reluctance very often [stems] from guilt or, closely related, a fear of raising doubts about certain orthodoxies. You only

Is Christianity — and by extension, a type of ethical “universalism” (be it secular liberalism or Christian charity) — responsible for the “successes” of Islamism as it works to spread itself? Could be, I suppose — though I think Nietzsche once offered a similarly employed critique of Christianity, and the interpretive bungling on the back end of that didn’t work out too well for the Germans in the long run.*