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[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ] One week before election day here in the United States, let’s consider, both politically and philosop...

OK Go has taken the music video to another whole level more than a few times in their career, but this...this is a quantum leap like nothing...

Not gospel, at least not really--more of a classic bit of English proletarian uplift. The Housemartins were the best.

Taping an episode of This Week in Kansas last Thursday, our host Tim Brown asked us assembled commentators: what do we predict for November...

(Via Accordion Guy , taken from this collection of rejected New Yorker cartoons.)

I've listened to Amy Grant on and off ever since my church to mission to South Korea a quarter-century ago. Christian pop never penetrat...

Via Samuel Brown, via The Toast , comes "All The Comments on Every Recipe Blog." Enjoy. “I didn’t have any eggs, so I replaced t...

Walking out from a Wal-Mart this morning, someone approached me, and asked if he'd seen me before. Since I've been doing quite a bit...

Scholars and sociologists and historians of sexuality can talk all they want about fluid gender orientations, the gay sub-culture of the 196...

My old friend David Jenkins challenged me to provide some Friday night discussion by listing my five favorite live albums. Well, I'm sor...