In light of today's "closing the barn door after thieves have stolen your livestock, burned down the barn, killed your family, and absconded with a trillion dollars" revelations by the always-prescient Kenneth Pollack, Jonathan Schwarz reminds us of his excerpts from Pollack's comedy classic, The...
Month: August 2006
Ugh:The idea is that when they break up the drug ring, the dealers forfeit the suitcases full of money found in their closet next to the kilo of coke. The.
Martha Nussbaum's review of Harvey Mansfield's Manliness is the most devastating critique of the philosophical pretensions of a Strauss disciple since...Nussbaum's evisceration of The Closing of the American Mind. (I'm.
A few points on Boston Massacre II: The Red Sox made two crucial moves that 1)I heartily supported at the time, and 2)have, in retrospect, turned out to be bad-to-disastrous. One the first of these--letting Damon walk and brining in Crisp--I was completely wrong about,...
In his review of an interesting-looking new LBJ biography, Alan Brinkley writes:Woods challenges as well a critical element of Caro’s extraordinary portrait of Texas politics in the second volume of.
This is a grim bit of business. At least he's bringing in Papelbon now......that could have been worse. Now I'd like to see A-Rod hit into the DP......Papelbon did a.
The Atlanta Braves have, in one form or another, been playing baseball since 1876. Indeed, in their Boston incarnation the Braves franchise has been playing since 1871, although the National Association is generally not referred to as a Major League. The early Boston franchise was...
This is the sixth of an eight (but probably just seven) part review series of the Patterson Summer Reading List.1. Colossus, Niall Ferguson2. Illicit, Moises Naim3. The End of Poverty,.
Godspeed to Jamie Moyer. He was well worth the price of Darren Bragg...
Shorter various blogospheric wingnuts: the government's appalling lack of racism gives people no recourse but to take racism into their own hands....UDPATE: via Roy, I see that Glenn Reynolds concurs that the racist harassment of the passengers is explained by "excessive political correctness on the...
The United States made a very late entrance into the battlecruiser game. The reasons for this are unclear; the Royal Navy built the world's first battlecruiser in 1908, with the.
This is the sixth of an eight part review series of the Patterson Summer Reading List.1. Colossus, Niall Ferguson2. Illicit, Moises Naim3. The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs4. The World.