What Alterman said. The attempts to gin up pseudo-scandals involving Obama and SOHNEHO were bad enough, but attempts to tie Obama to the Blagojevich scandal seem to consist of guilt-by-association without even the association, unless "living in the same city" counts. And to this we...
Month: December 2008
Zimbabwe, it is fair to say, is a nation poorly served by its government:The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe which has left hundreds dead was caused by the UK, an ally.
Oh, dear:Bernard L. Madoff, a former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market and a force in Wall Street trading for nearly 50 years, was arrested by federal agents Thursday, a.
My heart cries out:It is impossible to quantify how many affluent parents have trimmed allowances in recent months — or how many of their offspring, in turn, have sought either formal employment or odd jobs. But interviews with dozens of teenagers, parents, educators and employers...
There are a bunch of ways to analyze this. One is to compare the most similar players to Sabathia at the same age. The most similar is Dave McNally, who.
Perhaps Scott will have something to say about this deal from the other side. I've got some mixed feelings about it, but I think it's a small net positive for.
Public health scare edition.
I had only been to MSG once before, so it was very nice last weekend to see the Flames somehow eke out a victory despite barely leaving their own zone.
The War on (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs continues its roaring success:Killings linked to Mexico’s drug war have more than doubled this year compared with 2007 and.
Leaving aside his wanktastic politics, one thing that was never clear to me was exactly what credentials Bob Kerrey had to run a university. I know fundraising is very important to a modern university president, but...More at the COHE.
The Most Inane Punditry of 2008.I'm glad to say I'd never even heard of some of these items. For example:"Well, here's the other thing that we saw on the tape,.
If Ben Wittes is indeed serving as an adviser to the Obama transition team, let's hope the President-elect has the good sense not to listen to anything he has to.