Before I had a chance to respond to Yglesias' repeating of highly flawed received wisdom about competitive balance and baseball, he finds some relevant data. To this, I will add that 1)as demonstrated in the Historical Abstract, baseball was more competitively balanced in the 90s...
Month: April 2006
Matt helpfully points us to this: “As our generals have said, the war cannot be won militarily. It must be won politically.”Some generals may have said that, but it’s wrong..
For anyone in the Lexington Area,The first meeting of Drinking Liberally-Lexington will be held at 6:30pm, Tuesday, April 11 at the Horse and Barrel (101 North Broadway). I expect that.
I have to agree with several of Matt's commenters that Hank Aaron's 755 home runs probably is the most "hallowed" record in American sports, given that hallowed is a rather inexact term. It's not the most unbreakable, which I'm inclined to think goes to Charlie...
DHS pedophilia edition.
Congrats to Maryland for winning one hell of a championship game.
I'm inclined to think that the foreign policy of Hugo Chavez could provide grist for a generation of new international relations scholars. Chavez has pursued a fascinating anti-hegemonic strategy; gambling that hostility to the United States will be more profitable than friendship with the US....
I don't have a whole lot to add to the Supreme Court's denial of cert in the Padilla case that if you're interested you haven't read elsewhere. It's certainly quite.
Shorter Jason Apuzzo: based on my trademark film trailer and poster criticism, I assume that this movie is a brief against guns. This makes it highly hypocritical because many film.
...must be "politically incorrect." A classic example:"That's when my public school principal (in Orange, CA) decreed that the '69 World Series would be played over the school PA system. With the games starting at 10 AM local time, I could hear most of the game...
Gone.Uh, I'm not sure how someone is supposed to react to this from Assrocket:It's too bad, I think. DeLay was an effective leader, albeit too liberal in recent years. It's.
Saw Inside Man on Saturday. I was quite pleased.There were a couple of obvious problems. The score, until the very last scene, was intrusive and annoying. The payoff, admittedly, was.