links for 2007-09-20

• All Spin Zone » Define “Moderate Republican” for Me
  It is stupid that the media perpetuates the myth of a group of “moderate Republicans” that stands for values other than the extremist values of today’s Republican Party.
  (tags: politics GOP moderate)
• Movie Theaters for Grown-ups Coming to New York? — Vulture — Entertainment & Culture Blog — New York Magazine
  Buried in the piece is the exciting news that Alamo Drafthouse, the Texas-based mini-chain of upscale art-house cinemas, is planning to open a theater in New York by the end of 2008.
  (tags: alamo+drafthouse movie nyc theater greatest+movie+theater+in+the+world)
• Lovers’ Quarrel May Have Sparked Murder-Suicide – Local News Story – WKMG Orlando
  A prominent Republican Party consultant is one of three men found dead in a Central Florida home Thursday in an apparent double murder-suicide possibly sparked by a lovers’ quarrel, according to detectives.
  (tags: gop murder politics republicans suicide wtf)
• LRB | Perry Anderson: Depicting Europe
  Still, however technocratic or top-down the mechanics of enlargement may have been, the formal unification of the two halves of Europe is a historical achievement of the first order.
  (tags: article europe essay history integration international opinion politics toread perryanderson economics eu)
• The UF Tasering and the Right to Be an Asshole: The Rude Pundit
  And if being an asshole is all that it takes for some to think you deserve a shot of electricity, well, let’s march over to Fox “news” and let the voltage flow.
  (tags: dont+taser+me+bro student Kerry stupidity)

~ by SAP on 20 September 2007.