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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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The Real Porn Problem

By Matthew Yglesias

May 9 2007, 11:16 AM ET Comment

So here I am, trying to illegally download a bunch of songs in my effort to create the Ultimate Nineties Alt-Rock Playlist featuring all your favorite mainstream rock radio hits from back in the day, and I'm looking around for Marcy Playground's "Sex and Candy" and all I can find is . . . pornography.



YouTube, by contrast, won't host any porn, so it's simply to find the "Sex and Candy" music video, but the playlist needs MP3 files and Acquisition is useless.

UPDATE: Thanks, commenters! I've got it now. (Haha, just joking, obviously I would never download any illegal MP3 files. That's right, Mr. RIAA, the whole thing was just some of the irony the kids enjoy these days.)

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