As most D.C. cynics predicted, it appears as if a stadium financing deal is in place, pending a council vote. But, at least, it will be done with half private financing, so Cropp deserves some credit. At a minimum, I hope that the hysterics from people...
Month: December 2004
The Seattle PI has a relatively unremarkable story on the economic fallout of the recent oil spill in The Aleutians today. Short-term influx of work, dollars, and filled hotel rooms, tempered.
Josh Canel finds an NYT article pointing out one of the contributing elements to our military manpower shortage: An analysis of Pentagon data reveals that the military is losing gay.
Many of us political theory types have a particular interest in the facts and fictions of the founding moments of political societies, especially under extreme and unusual circumstances. Lost, ABC's stellar new mildly soap-operatic stranded-on-a-tropical-island drama (I recently finally got around to watching the episodes so...
There's a very nice discussion of teaching evaluations going on over at Crooked Timber. My evaluations, both as an instructor and a TA, have always been strong, so I've accordingly been.
I wish that studios would make more of an effort to spread their decent releases across the year rather than to cluster them in the last two weeks. I understand.
Read this excellent article in the New York Times about the hunt for spies at Guantanamo Bay. Long story short, if you're Islamic and you have any questions about the treatment of detainees, you get to be a suspect and have your life upended. To be...
While Jim Henley and Rob have already dealt with this, this Tom Boswell article linked to be Henley about the DC stadium deal is such a definitive example of the mendacity of.
Some insight into Libya's motivation to drop its weapons programs early this year: Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi said the move was responsible for Mr. Bush's election victory and said he now wanted.
This is old news, and I don't have much to add, but it's worth remembering when you find yourself confronted by a Reagan-addled wingnut: The answer, of course, is that Reagan didn't grow his way out of the deficits caused by his 1981 tax cut....
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
I'm not a fan of Peter Beinart, but this is perhaps the most ill-conceived line of attack anyone could come up with: Even if you favor making gay marriage a central,.