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...once the Internet made it cheap for smaller labels and amateur acts to get their music to consumers, it was a sonic free-for-all. MP3 players, MySpace, and Facebook all made it easier to display your taste, as well, and suddenly the hipster was a public figure. Question: How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: You don’t know?This obsession is insidious. Science has proven that musical taste is a perfectly valid personality indicator, but the hipster persona has boiled it down to a dark, bitter, cynical syrup. Speaking as someone...
...that all but the most jaded political hands should find troubling: many of them, quite simply, are racists.Rep. John Murtha, a sixteen-term Congressman from Pittsburgh, acknowledged this reality on Wednesday with a bluntness that a less secure incumbent could never have dared. “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area,” he said. I am afraid that in small towns on the Jersey border, there is no question, either.The racism that defines these swing voters is not necessarily founded upon stereotype or prejudice. It’s not the kind that...
...premised on the belief, “innocent until proven guilty”—a concept that concludes it is better to let 10 criminals free than to kill one innocent person—it seems wrong to risk taking an innocent life. But the larger question might be: Is the death penalty even an ineffective deterrent? In fact, experts on criminology tend to reject such notions as a flawed understanding of being tough on crime versus evidence-based reasoning about what works. Lawrence Sherman—Professor of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania—explained...
...Obama retorted: “Let’s make clear what the facts are: I am a Christian. I have been sworn in with a Bible...I lead the pledge of allegiance sometimes in the United States Senate when I’m presiding.” The question did not have anything to do with the pledge of allegiance; to even raise the topic sustains the false opposition between Islam on the one hand and patriotism on the other...
...look at the sweep of this election year, you can see how everything funnels down to the basic question of Barack Obama. This is a "change" year if ever there was one. McCain can't help it that fewer than 10% of Americans believe the country is on the right track - the lowest number since polls were invented...