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A few months ago I wrote a post about the awesome and heavily hair-ironed band Tokio Hotel. Much to my surprise it probably remains the most trafficked Pinko post ever, largely because many thousands of excited fans have Google Alerts set for “Tokio Hotel,” which I am glad to “ping,” as they say. I’ve actually [...]
Edwards, Hitler, blah blah blah.
I was psyched to see John Edwards endorse Barack Obama, largely because he is so lithe and sinewy committed to ending poverty, and because John Edwards is someone who can pull him to the left policy-wise and might make a killer Attorney General. But I was struck by the wording of his speech:
“There is one [...]
I’ll take the trash heap please, thank you.
Have you ever been to Vancouver? I have. It’s stunning and it looks like the future. Three years ago I went to a dinner there at the University of British Columbia demonstration farm: we ate at long tables with white table cloths in the middle of a corn field overlooking the Pacific, feasting on a [...]
What the kids are listening to.
I work next door to the Irving Plaza, one of the largest concert venues in New York. Snaking around several city blocks today is the longest line I’ve ever seen for a concert there, so it must, I thought, absolutely must be some band I’d heard of. I’m not so old that I wouldn’t have [...]

