The Hood Internet – Alex Chilton, Down And Out (The Replacements x Cam’ron x Kanye West) by hoodinternet And to think: this was a rejected mash-up. Kanye Westerberg. These men are geniuses.

TAPPED is on vacation. Adam Serwer, blogger on the rise, has nowhere to post. He’s trying to enjoy his vacation. But people keep saying dumb shit.  And that makes Adam want to unload. So I offer up this forum… The GOP’s response to the failed X-Mas bomber has been transparently craven and political, with Jim [...]

It’s what Obama intends to do to al-Qaeda wherever it is. But it’s also a deft dogwhistle to the all-important crustpunk and d-beat hardcore kid voting bloc. Coincidence? Unlikely. In any event, Alexandra Gutierrez and I have started a new d-beat band here in Moshington DC — first practice was yesterday — and we intend [...]

The right-wing email of the day: Dude, don’t lose the plot. And yes, I get these every day. Every. Day.

Your questions: answered by Mark Hosenball. This is an excellent piece of journalism. My only follow-on: There’s an understandable impulse to redress the Abdulmutallab failure by basically treating someone’s placement on TIDE as, essentially, probable cause. But it could actually be counterproductive, sending overtaxed intelligence and law enforcement officials off chasing false positives. Watch next [...]

I liked my end-of-the-00s essay for The Awl. But I fucking love Dave Bry’s. Looking back, one of the terrible things that followed that terrible day felt, at the time, like the most comforting thing—the only comforting thing, really, about it at all. It was the great respect and affection I felt for Rudy Giuliani. [...]

I’ve read a lot of stupid shit about Obama’s approach to human rights policy. But I haven’t seen anything half as stupid as this, and it comes from Washington’s most influential editorial page: The Obama administration, [Secretary Clinton] said, would “see human rights in a broad context,” in which “oppression of want — want of [...]

New York City’s punk-rock Boys & Girls Club just got an anonymous donation of one million dollars. Words don’t properly express how full my heart is at hearing this. ABC No Rio helped make me who I am, for better or worse.

Umar Farouk “When There’s Nothing Left To Burn, You Must Set Your Crotch On Fire” Abdulmutallab is currently detained in a federal prison in Michigan. For now! In a few days he’ll use his Muslim heat vision to escape and run amok in Ann Arbor, shortly after America is brought to its knees by the [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 1004-09 December 27, 2009 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Staff Sgt. David H. Gutierrez, 35, of San Fransico, Ca., died Dec. 25 at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his dismounted patrol [...]