Liberal Talk Radio

Nice point from Ezra Klein:
Our identities are deeply interwoven into our dining choices, and the hipsters ostentatiously traveling across town to try jellyfish in a hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant and then telling all their friends about the discovery are saying something about themselves just as surely as the young family dressing up for a night [...]

This video of Charlie Rose done in the style of Samuel Beckett is a work of staggering genius:

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I see that Seattle indie-rockers The Presidents of the United States of America are engaged in a little guerilla marketing this campaign season:

One wonders why they’re using the non-standard acronym “PUSA” instead of the much more widely-recognized “POTUS.”
I do however, like the sentiment of the sign, “These are the Good Times.” Much [...]

I definitely heard AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Fifth Avenue on Monday. This made me happy. So as college bands gear up for March Madness, the Times takes a look at the set list:
Pep bands may provide the N.C.A.A. tournament’s greatest culture clash — giving a time-warped [...]

[Fear not, no real spoilers to follow...]
In an interview with Salon, The Wire creator David Simon defends himself against the complaint that the fifth season of the show doesn’t address the role of the internet in the decline of newspapers:
If you’re saying that there needed to be scenes of the Internet interacting with journalism [...]

Jamal Simmons points out the similarities between an Obama-McCain election and the Santos-Vinick campaign from Season 7 of The West Wing:
Then there is Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who is perfectly filling the role Alan Alda played, Arnold Vinick, the older maverick Republican senator from the West (California in the show). Due to his willingness [...]

Christopher Orr, the TNR movie critic, has his year-end awards out, and they’re hilarious. A sampling:
The Warfare Is Not the Slightest Bit Homoerotic Award:
300
The It’s Fun to Be Naked Award:
Lady Chatterley
The …Except When Guys Are Trying to Knife You In the Sauna Award:
Eastern Promises
Neurotic Siblings Whom I’d Nonetheless Welcome Into My Family:
Philip Seymour Hoffman [...]

I have to say that I didn’t tear up or choke back anything in the final scenes of Juno, like A.O. Scott says he did; the film was too glib and slick to be believable — not to mention unfunny (not that it was unfunny, but it wasn’t consistently humorous, just grating like someone who [...]

Jonathan Golob at Slog points out that The Wire is Barack Obama’s favorite TV show, and proceeds to explain why it’s such a great choice for a presidential candidate:
No character is left unblemished. Institutions are at best viewed as noble failures (the Stevedores Union) and more often as a destructive force. Obama’s declaration [...]

Not as good as 2 Girls 1 Cup “reactions” but close. Darn close.