Backward Causality
We report, you decide.
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Mmmmmm, Bacon Salt
Because everything should taste like bacon.
Who Says Jazz Isn't Commercial?
The ad team at Dolce & Gabbana seems to think it can be. Would Charles Mingus’ “Moanin’” become a best-seller if more people knew it sounded so cool—or if the millions who watched <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMWofLZ6gH8">this TV commercial</A> knew that’s what they were hearing? Could it be that jazz just needs shrewder marketing? (The whole song can be heard on Mingus’ great 1959 album, <I>Blues & Roots</I>.)
Mee-Yow!
Alexis Petridis reviews Paris Hilton's debut record. "She sings like a woman who has heard of something called singing, can't be sure of exactly what it might entail, but is fairly certain you do something a bit like this."
Missing In Action
Dear High-End Dealer,
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The eBay Voldemort Confesses
Will Collier tells the tale behind that $250 pre-publication sale of the final Harry Potter volume.
Farewell, Comma, He Said
Robert J. Samuelson laments the lapsing of the comma.
Rational Voters?
Louis Menand's <A HREF="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/07/09/070709crbo_books…; of <I>The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Politics</I> is an interesting read—possibly more interesting than the book itself. However, back in 2004, Gene Weingarten covered the same questions, getting up close and personal with Ted Prus, a non-voter who "just doesn't give a rat's ass."
The Worst Of The South
The final article of <I>The Oxford American</I>'s Best of the South issue is Hal Crowther's splenetic rant about the region's less savory characteristics.