This is a very trivial issue, but on the other hand this is an eclectic blog.Why are so many high-profile sports broadcasters so incredibly bad? OK, I'm sure broadcasting a sports event, like just about everything else in this world, is harder than it looks...
Month: November 2008
Krugman on the Citigroup bailout. Or perhaps "weak, arbitrary, [and] incomprehensible" is the better phrase. The fact that Citigroup's shareholders are apparently not even going to get much of a.
I'm fairly agnostic about the merits of the appointment -- I'm inclined to defer to Obama's judgment given the quality of his campaign and Clinton is certainly a person of.
Congratulations to Henry Burris and the Calgary Stampeders on winning North America's most important football championship...
Not. Good.
Erik leads off this week's discussion of From Colony to Superpower. Chapter 3 deals with the period between 1801 and 1815. This period saw the dominance of the Republicans, and.
While watching Penn State destroy Michigan State yesterday, it occurred to me that we aren't hearing much this year about how Joe Paterno is a coach lost in another era, the "game having passed him by". It also occurred to me that we would be...
This article is kind of fabulous, in the sense that it clearly lays out the connection between a lax attitude towards regulation and the production of bad loans:Simeon Ferguson, an.
I am remiss in noting the passing last month of Ted Briggs. Briggs was the last of the three survivors of the destruction of HMS Hood at the Battle of.
Consider: The Washington State Cougars are currently 1-10, with only a victory over Portland State to their credit. The Washington Huskies are 0-10, and likely to lose at Cal. The Seattle Seahawks are 2-8. The Seattle Mariners lost 101 games this season. And the Supersonics?...
Jules Crittenden:George W. Bush did not solve all the problems of the world's most troubled and dangerous region. You don't say!Crittenden's larger claim -- that the Bush Doctrine has somehow.
I suppose this silly column doesn't really merit further discussion, but I think gmack's comment merits elevation to the main page:So far as I can tell, no one here knows.