Old Is The New New

Emo and goth to be made illegal in Russia? Don’t they know if we outlaw emo, only outlaws will be emo?

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Scott Kaufman reports (without, alas, documentation) that Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale based their Batman on Teddy Roosevelt.

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From the “We survived, didn’t we?” department: A paean to old, dangerous playground equipment. (But see Greg Downey’s astute response.)

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The Kinematrix has you: three alternate Victorian internets.

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Jim Henley dismantles a lame Newsday piece on the politics of various superheroes. “He’s a Jewish New Yorker who has never written for Commentary. You have to assume he’s a Democrat until proven otherwise.”

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Centrifugal steam guns and other strange weapons of the Civil War.

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Plus the Jimmy Carterian Internet and the Millennial Pneumatic Tube.

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