Oh, yeah.. And the final out was deeply satisfying.
Month: April 2007
We were fortunate to have Dave Neiwert in Juneau last week. The students in my US 1919-1950 course were reading Strawberry Days, Dave's latest book about the enduring damage caused.
Not surprisingly--given that it's charged with the task of defending a law that is indefensible under current doctrine--there are many bad elements to Kennedy's opinion besides its egregious sexism and.
In the wake of the Reconquista, Muslims and Jews fleeing Spain found their way in numbers to what would become modern Tunisia. A struggle for control between Spain and Turkey ended when the Ottoman Empire assumed control of the territory in 1574. Various appointees of...
I don't really agree with the take of Garance and Ezra on Maureen Dowd's abjectly horrible column yesterday. The error they're making, I think, it to assume that these charges.
The mass murders at VT were caused by...evil professors! (Well, some of them are professors, some are people the wingnut in question thinks are professors because he's an idiot.) However,.
James Clayton Dobson takes another step toward God's mysterious embrace today, as the nation's informal Guardian of Decency turns 71 years old. Hard though it may be to believe, Dobson was once a "sassy" child who by his own account needed to be taken down...
Constitutional scholar Cass Sunstein had a column in yesterday's L.A. Times focusing on Justice Ginsburg's dissent in Gonzales. The dissent, unlike the Court's abortion jurisprudence, focused on the right to.
From Pulitzer Prize winner Maureen Dowd. Somerby has a history of the haircut wars, featuring the 'WaPo's own Pulitzer Prize-winning airhead Robin Givhan, and airhead who probably hasn't won a.
Project Runway, April 20:What really struck me about that audio clip though was what a gasbag Obama is. I hear a tired-sounding man, who rambles on and on. I know he's speaking before a group. I hear them respond now and then, when he mentions...
Season's Greetings.
In what may be the silliest wingnutitude since the "a crescent is coming to kill us and take our memorials" fiasco, Jerry Bowers:Envy, deep and powerful, comes through it all..