Huh.Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all. In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine."The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My...
Month: April 2007
Yglesias finds Rudy Giuliani asserting an "inherent authority" to fund troops without Congressional appropriations. Evidently, it would be difficult to find a claim made by a mainstream candidate more transparently.
A red rubber nose would really complete this outfitJMM analyzes the moldering corpse that is John McCain's ambition to be President, and links it to the ice-cream-castles-in-the-air rhetoric that has.
Obviously, Lamoriello deserves a pretty high benefit of the doubt, but his firing of Claude Julien with 102 points and counting is just bizarre. I really can't think of any non-Devil precedent for the coach of a very successful team being fired this late in...
In addition to being Treason-in-Defense of Slavery Month, this April is the heart of the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War. I'll have more later this month about some naval.
Congratulations to J. James, whose creatively dubbed "James1" entry has won the 2007 LGM Tourney Challenge. As soon as J. James favors me with his or her e-mail address, I.
Shorter Verbatim Paul Mirengoff:By any objective measure, the surge has had a positive effect on Baghdad. Civilian casualties are down sharply since January; execution style deaths are half of what they were; and other killings have declined by almost the same factor. But even in...
Indeed.And all of this, of course, was a convenient distraction from Saint McCain taking a "stroll" accompanied by a bulletproof vest, 100 troops, and aerial cover......Quite correct: "In answer to.
Last year I predicted that the Reds would go 72-90, good for fifth place in the NL central. Instead, they went 80-82, placed third, and but for a couple of.
Nice to see Derek Jeter get not only the usual single on a ball hit a couple steps to his left but a throwing error in on Opening Day (alas, the sound wasn't working on my machine so I couldn't hear if Kay tried to...
Racist yokels across the state of Georgia are observing "Confederate Heritage Month." It also happens to be Emotional Overeating Awareness Month and Fresh Florida Tomato Month, but I digress. In.
Mexico City is on the verge of decriminalizing abortion. The New York Times story on it is really first-rate. What I like about it is that it makes clear what.