See Harding, McEwen, and Hess. Eugene Robinson's column on the subject is so good that I suspect that as we speak Fred Hiatt is firing him so he can buy Anne Applebaum and Richard Cohen more crayons. Speaking of Applebaum, I guess one of the...
Month: September 2009
You've probably heard that Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland. I think this is a very good thing, and find most of the outrage over it baffling.One thing to note.
Shorter Dan Riehl: Was Bill Sparkman murdered for trying to rape children? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.H/t Joe.
At his best, he was a clever writer with a commitment to civil liberties increasingly absent from the Republican Party; at his worst, he used his establishment credentials to push the most unabashed wingnuttery. If you replace "civil liberties" with "moderate advancement of the welfare...
It is difficult for me to convey my pride in the announcement that a man decried by no less an authority than Jeff Goldstein as "a sophist and a hamfisted.
I have a review of Flotilla: The Patuxent Naval Campaign in the War of 1812 up at ID. Check it out, if you dare.
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It should go without saying that I a) substantially agree with all of Scott's critiques of major NCAA athletics, and b) will be cheering heartily today for both the Cats.
In comments, Nerdlinger writes:No, I don't support that rule change, because then you don't have college athletics as we know it. You wouldn't have 120 I-A football schools, and you.
Tom Vu, come back, all is forgiven...
Ertugrul Osman, heir to the Ottoman Empire, died yesterday in Istanbul. I profiled his dynasty here. The head of House Osman is now Bayezid III, who was born in Paris,.
Just in case you forgot, NCAA rules seem to derive from the concept that everyone should be able to make as much money as possible off of college athletics except.