For a hockey fan, the Olympics can actually provide something useful: an equivalent to soccer's World Cup. The level of hockey in Salt Lake in 2002 was incredible, showing what a game that had grown logy could be, and culminated in a terrific final game,...
Month: December 2005
Brad DeLong notes that the National Review now has an online archive, which is going to do some serious damage to the "conservatives have always been liberals" narrative favored by.
I share Matt's impression of King Kong. I enjoyed the film, but it was clearly a mess. Easily 45 minutes should have found its way onto the cutting room floor..
A tale of horror and redemption from the Washington Post:When Linda Cerniglia went back to school, it took her almost seven years to get through all the prerequisites, the labs, the research. And it took a thief just moments to grab her purse, with the...
According to the press conference being held now by the mediator, if I understand it correctly, the union leadership in the NYC transit strike will recommend a return to work.
I think it's worth noting the implications of believing that the President has the inherent authority to trump legal requirements during wartime, and then applying this claim to the unendable.
Bleh.It's too much money, not that it matters to the Yankees. Damon has been a plus defender in centerfield, although there are some signs of decline. Offensively, he was worse in 2005 than 2004, but he's been kind of up and down over the course...
Eric Muller has an interesting finding with respect to Concerned Alumni for Princeton, the group whose concern was that women and minorities would ruin campus life and make it harder.
The warrantless wiretap issue has grown too complex for me to comment substantively on, but a few points in this Jeff Goldstein post leapt out at me. The first is.
Like Roy, I had an uneventful day today, but I will be venturing into Manhattan tomorrow, and will also have to go in Friday because my parents are in town. I'm putting the over/under on walking to the Upper East Side from Astoria at 70...
Predictably, Glenn Reynolds jumps on the silly and utterly beside-the-point "but Bill Clinton did it!" bandwagon with both feet, while equally predictably being dishonest enough to conflate the crucial difference.
Here's a question: at what level of popularity does a Governor or Senator not need to bother to run for reelection? Alex Oveis mentions the story of William Proxmire's 1982.