Number One for 27 July 2010

Got a counterfeit dollar in his hand:

• Everything you need to know in order to be snobbish about high-alcohol wine [Snob Lessons]
  
• Overheard in DC. Sounds like a lot of Hoyas were eavesdropped upon. [DCist]
  
• Julia Stiles finds her balance. [Alyssa Rosenberg]
  
• I once dismissed Pierre Bourdieu as an airy French philosophe. I am increasingly convinced that he's the only recent sociologist worth studying. [Wikipedia]
  
• That doesn't mean that he's easy to read. [Marxists.Org]
  
• "Every once in a while someone from security studies tells me that international political economy is really, really boring and that they can't understand how I could find it interesting. I think today is one of those days in which I would tell them the same thing." [Daniel Drezner]
  
• A brilliant survey of classical music [City Journal]
  
• The guest "Automata" strips at Penny Arcade: exuberant! [Penny Arcade]
  

Stevie Wonder, "Misstra Know-It-All"