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Absolutely. It's well worth knowing something about the man - if only so that when his views are inserted, with no caveat, into a discussion like this, you can confidently dismiss them as the disingenuous schemings of a freak.

I wouldn't pay any attention to that second article. Michael Ledeen only writes stuff that supports Michael Ledeen's crazed agenda. He's not some disinterested talking head - he's one of the guys who laid down the ideological foundation for the neo-con project. Beyond that, he may have actually...

No? He had an approval rating of 90% after 9/11 and around 75% at the time he launched the invasion of Iraq. It's now in the mid-to-low 30s and he's scarcely more popular with substantial chunks of his own party than he is with the Democrats. I'm not disputing the claim that Bush might want to...

This has (for the most part) been an interesting thread. Whenever I checked out one of the numerous linked articles suggesting that, behind the scenes, the US is preparing to attack Iran, I found it initially plausible. And chilling. With a bit of distance, though, I keep coming back to the...

Wunderbar! I'll be there with as many folks as I can trick into coming.

Yo! BigPhillyBlunts! You know how it's almost impossible to identify remnants of food in a particularly consistent and well-turned stool? Well, I'm finding it similarly tough to pick out and comment on any individual passages from your post - it's just all shit, frankly.

Yep! I think I probably went a little overboard when claiming that capitalism "doesn't care what you do with your free time": what I was trying to get across was that capitalism doesn't care what music you listen to (or whether you listen to music at all), and nor does it care whether you are...

While it's entertaining to speculate that the revolution that The Beatles sang about might have happened if they hadn't existed, it doesn't seem very realistic to me. And I'm not sure it makes sense to think about rock music, feminism and increasingly liberal attitudes as part of a negotiation...

The Three Compasses on Hornsey High Street has an mp3 jukebox. Despite being open to the kind of "flee my music" abuse described upthread, in practice there appears to be a kind of unspoken agreement not to put anything too objectionable on. People seem to respect its power and try to use it for...

I've been deliberately ignoring dnb for the last six-nine months but I had to pick up a couple of recent releases by Macc: "End of Me" and "The Way of a Small Thought" are both fantastic. I was starting to worry that "End of Me" was never going to get a release ...

Nor, indeed, a worthwhile operation.

38. eurasian house 39. bohemian house 40. wiggy house 41. theatrical house 42. spastic house 43. bumbag house 44. bauhouse 45. back to my house 46. back to your house 47. poor house 48. yim wah house 49. yumyum thai house 50. soho house 51. white house 52. green house 53. we're renting because...

The 13th Floor Elevators! Rhythm & Sound. Foul Play. Cannibal Ox. And another vote for Spacemen 3.

And it's explicit in my post that I'm aware of that. Whether this thread is a good example of it or not is open to debate, but there's a definite snobbiness which is displayed by followers of dubstep towards followers of drum'n'bass. Too often, I think that snobbiness is either unwarranted or...

Aw. Are the dnb kids crashing YOUR party? I'm a fan of drum'n'bass who was switched on to dubstep when I picked up "Stuck / Neverland". So, I certainly wasn't here in 1999, but I'd like to think that I "got it" immediately, and did so in the "right" way, despite my backward taste in music...

Does it? Why?

I honestly never dreamed that I'd find myself defending German pop music ... but since moving to Berlin I've been pleasantly surprised. Don't judge the whole country's output on the execrable (and sadly ubiquitous Naidoo) ...