Daily Archive: December 11, 2009

Will

/// December 11, 2009

The Best Cover of All Time, Continued

Faye Wong singing “Dreams” in Cantonese gets my vote:

Jamelle

/// December 11, 2009

Why Emperor Palpatine Wasn’t as Wrong as You Think

We have enough examples of republican forms of galactic government to know that the alternative isn’t that much better.

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