Marx takes a curtain call; Colbert makes it clear; Obama makes it big
The Guardian reports that a drama troupe in Düsseldorf is performing a stage version of Das Kapital, a project possibly only secondary in difficulty to makin...
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Historical inevitability, again
It may be apocryphal that Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was beheaded with his own invention, but it’s demonstrably true that Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales doesn’t ...
Cultural Learnings of Kazakhstan Make Benefit Glorious Film of Borat
So Shannon and I just saw the Borat movie with her brother and his partner, and for those who didn’t see it last night, it’s screamingly funny, assuming you’...
Historical inevitability
US megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, leader of the National Association of Evangelicals, stepped down yesterday after one of his rent boys outed him. First Mar...
So I wrote in to Savage Love…
I love Dan Savage’s advice column, but he tripped up this week about Canadian politics. Like many liberals in the US, he seems to view Canada as that magica...