Tuesday Evening Links: Illegal Immigration, Amish Sex Pistols, and Old Timey Playlists

By Lucy Steigerwald On April 2, 2013 · In Evening links, Politics · Add Comment

The AP decided that “illegal immigrant” was no longer the term of choice. Conservatives devoted a great deal of time and hashtag to missing the point. Because why talk about an issue that affects millions, when whining about liberal political correctness will do?
Michael C. Moynihan on the perils of Wikipedia, and why he is not that Michael Moynihan.
Bonus: via the former, Amish Bill Grundy Show Sex Pistols. Why? Because the internet.
Boston Cab Medallions Racket Just as Much of a Racket as Every Other Medallion System, Only Possibly Moreso
Cops need to rememeber this sort of thing every time someone shoots back at their real SWAT teams
Stop paying attention to Jim Carrey about gun rights, everyone. Stop. Thank you. There is no link.
H.L. Mencken on “How to Drink Like a Gentleman”
Ten other writers on drinking tips, the best being by G.K. Chesterton, possibly the worst being from Hitchens, whose Hitch-22 I love so well, but the quoted used makes me, as an occasionally drunk woman, feel rather judged.
Harry Cheadle of Vice is going to read Endtime Magazine so we don’t have to, but I kind of want to now.
Jim Epstein, whose Reason TV stuff you should always watch, tweeted me this rather amazing old timey playlist compiled by folks in charge of what sounds like it was a kick-ass New York City radio program called Root Hog or Die. Ahh, so good. So good.