Frequent commenter MHS requested that we write a bit about the WBC, and since that was my intention anyway...It would be wrong to say that I'm wildly enthusiastic about the WBC, but I'm happy that it's being put on. I'm glad to see competitive baseball...
Month: March 2006
Jeff Goldstein should probably go back to doing what he does well. I'm not sure what that is, really, but it can't be blogging about national security. Regarding a report.
It was fun to watch him play.1783 games.318/.370/.477207 home runs2 World Series rings (1987, 1991).296 lifetime EQAUPDATE: Joe Sheehan has a good column on Kirby.
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision written by Chief Justice Roberts, upheld the Solomon Amendment, thus forcing universities to permit the military to recruit on campus even if the military continues to violate their anti-discrimination rules. I think the decision is probably right--I agree...
Via Magnus at Capital Cadre, this offering at The Officer's Club is about the clearest distillation of an American fascism that I've ever seen. A selection:The problem with our world.
Yet another argument about abortion by William Saletan. Whether it deserves more time than Elton gave it is I suppose debatable, but I can't resist. A lot of his points.
Well, Dave Kehr called it. And it makes sense--granting that Brokeback is better described as "very, very good" than "great," it was just too good to win Best Picture in this era. Crash, on the other hand, is exactly the kind of didactic, jejune middlebrow...
Picture: BrokebackDirector: LeeActor: HoffmanActress: WitherspoonSupporting Actor: GyllenhallSupporting Actress: WeiszOriginal Screenplay: Good Night and Good LuckAdapted Screenplay: Brokeback MountainLet this serve as an open Oscar thread.
I swear that this post is currently the lead story at Train Wreck Media (TM) (Prof. Glenn Reynolds, co-founder):Someone else (and I regret forgetting who) has mentioned the humorous fact.
I noted last year that Harper's--within living memory an outstanding publication--has become worthless. Discouraging people from taking HIV treatments based on crackpottery straight from the pages of Spin magazine really is taking things to a whole new level of shittiness, however. What's next, a cover...
SMS Ostfriesland was the second ship of the Helgoland class, the second group of German dreadnoughts. Germany had been taken aback by the construction of HMS Dreadnought and HMS Invincible..
This will be of mild-to-no-interest to most readers, but the Patterson School just finished its 2006 Spring Simulation. A good time was had by all. The theme this year was.