Now that was a great game, one of the best I've seen in a long time, and a happy outcome to boot. Congrats to Lorenzo Romar on glorious season. I noticed throughout that the somewhat dimwitted announcers kept saying Arizona was playing for a potential...
Month: March 2005
Regular readers of this blog know that all three of us are pretty much of one mind when it comes to the new conservative enthusiasm for global democracy promotion. Let's.
No, it's not another interminable Hegel-obsesssed film review by Charles Mudede. It's in the news section, where The Stranger occasionally pulls it together to offer a quality product. I've got nothing.
Here's to hoping that Garry Kasparov's retirement goes better than that of Bobby Fischer. Indeed, some think that Garry might make a fine President of Russia, although who's to say whether or not he has a good soul. . . My deepest attachment to the game...
The Tokyo fire raid was sixty years ago yesterday. 334 USAAF B-29s, each stripped of armament because the Japanese didn't have the gas to fuel interceptors, flew over Tokyo and dropped.
The Taiwan-China problem doesn't seem that terribly complicated to me. Oddly enough, however, my students have no end of difficulty with it. The situation is relatively simple; China is dedicated.
Give Redbeard a read this morning. Here's an excerpt: Say you're Marty Miller and you strangled your wife. Now, that's murder, and you've made the muder rate go up in Lawrence, Kansas. Now say you're Bruce Charles Englar in York, Pennsylvania, and you've made the raping...
Nobody will confuse me with John Simon or Bill Safire. I am not any kind of absolutist, for example, when it comes to arbitrary grammatical rules. I think pendants who.
The subject of bullying has interested me for a very long time. Back in the day, I was victim much more than perpetrator; never let anyone tell you that "everyone.
Frequent and indispensable commenter Thad, among others, has given me a fair degree of grief regarding my recommendation of Tacitus.org. I haven't decided yet how much grief I deserve; some, no doubt. But Tac has two posts up today that remind me why I like...
Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the CPSU twenty years ago today. A lot changes in twenty years.
Via MaxSpeak, Vivek Chibber provides a long-necessary demolition of Niall Ferguson. Sawicky highlights the first part of Chibber's argument, pointing out the ridiculousness of Ferguson's claims about the "good government" allegedly provided.