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glenn mcdonald's last column, at least for now, is up. The end begins like this:

I started writing music reviews because I realized that my record collection had gotten ahead of my understanding of it. Twelve years, five hundred weeks of this column, thousands of reviews and tens of thousands of listening and writing hours later, I think there is a sense in which I have finally caught up.

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This article about party affiliation and brain activity makes me vaguely uncomfortable.