Detroit media outlets reporting Yankees have acquired Ivan Rodriguez. No word on what the Tigers got.While obviously not close to the player he was in his prime, IRod is an exactly average AL hitter at this point, which makes him a better than average hitter...
Month: July 2008
Shorter Carol Marin: "Data is the plural of anecdote! And arbitrary subdivisions of broader classes -- even Dick Morris can see the logic of that!"
I suppose you'd have to be one of the more deliberately uninformed assholes on the planet -- which is to say, you'd have to be Dan Riehl -- to make.
I agree with Turley and Bazelon that it will be pathetic if Monica Goodling ends up taking all of the responsibility for the frequently illegal cronyism and ineptitude at the DOJ. It's a nice scam they have going: immunize the subordinate so she can discuss...
A top government research scientist I know has a theory about the "obesity epidemic." Dr. X isn't allowed to speak on the record to the media about X's work without.
I'm sure you've been waiting with bated breath to see which wholly arbitrary subdivision of the center-right white bourgeoisie Mark Penn would invent this year and claim requires the maximum.
I've just read Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which Robert Farley reviewed on LGM back when it was published a couple of years ago. I hadn't read anything by McCarthy before, and was very impressed with his stylistic talents, which reminded me of a sort of...
Drink the news like sweet, sweet wine.Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the U.S. Senate and one of the chamber's most powerful members, was indicted Tuesday in Washington, a.
A fair number of folks have been linking to this A.O. Scott piece on comic book genre films; it's interesting enough, but I thought that the final paragraph undermines the.
Again, I can't say whether this is applicable to The Dark Knight, but I strongly applaud the arguments about how Bay and Tony Scott seemed to have killed the competent, intelligible action sequence. The idea that commercial-style quick cutting represents a technically competent way of...
In more ordinary times this would be a very big scandal indeed, but the Bush administration has made flagrant lawbreaking at the highest levels of government very much a dog.
Huh.Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne are looking to the future -- literally.The New Line founders-turned-producers have signed on to produce their first project since they received their post-New Line deal.