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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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"Why Don't You Get a Job?"

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 29 2007, 1:56 PM ET Comment

For some reason, Alamo gave me a rental car featuring XM satellite radio without telling me. Once I figured it out, I naturally turned to Lucy where every day is the ultimate nineties alt-rock party. At any rate, "Why Don't You Get a Job" by The Offspring came on, and while I'd remembered it as a bad song, oh my God it's terrible.

In addition to its pure sonic badness, it's just an egregious rip-off of "ob-la-di ob-la-da," and is conveying what I've got to believe is the least punk message in human history. I'm almost inclined to believe that the whole thing is a kind of deeply ironic joke about the willingness of commercial radio programmers to give airtime to whatever crap the record companies feed them.

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