There's nothing like bad hip-hop

In terms of pure tedium, I mean, even if this pro-Obama song is all in a good cause.

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Night lights

 
Washington's National Cathedral is illuminated during a media preview of Gerry Hofstetter's 'Lighting to Unite' project. The Swiss artist will project images on the building over three nights starting this evening. Photo credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images]

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Lesbos & lesbians

Classicist Mary Beard ponders a curious legal case:

This idea of decoupling Sappho, female homoeroticism and the island of Lesbos seems to me about as mad as trying to white out William Shakespeare from Stratford on Avon.

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What lies ahead

Michael Barone's take on how the Democratic race will end

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Israel's birthday

Tom Gross has put together an extensive round-up of coverage of the country's 60th anniversary. I have to disagree with him, though, on the question of Jeffrey Goldberg's Atlantic essay. Tom sees the piece as part of a western media offensive against the Jewish state. I thought it was just an honest appraisal of how the occupation of the West Bank undermines Israel's ethical claims - not to mention its demographic base. Goldberg replies to one of his main critics, Caroline Glick, over at his blog.

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