Thursday, February 06, 2003

Hitchens and the War Polemicist Christopher Hitchens has lost many friends over his recent and increasingly vocal support for all things war and Bush, but he has not lost his mind. In fact, he is perhaps the only person on either side of the debate whose position is morally clear, internally consistent, and well-informed as to the facts. This does not, unfortunately, mean he is right. More... 3:36:25 PM    Emphasize This! [] Grim Spector Phil Spector, the record producer who made his reputation producing frothy girl-group pop in the early 60s (and, strangely, went on to work with the Ramones in the late 70s), was not known for being a nice guy. Nevertheless, one has to marvel at the sheer sleaze of the circumstances surrounding his alleged shooting of a woman he met earlier the same evening, after he got her back to his Alhambra, CA mansion. Celebrity crime cases don't usually interest me, but there's an element of the tragic in Spector, the one-time boy genius and notorious control freak, ending up as the lead in a bad remake of Sunset Blvd. 10:27:40 AM    Emphasize This! []

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