Month: October 2009
This video has been making lots of people laugh and/or seccuss their heads against the wall on the science and med blogs this week. It’s almost too painful to watch — the jaw-dropping butc
The premise of Curb Your Enthusiasm, according to James Kaplan’s 2004 profile of Larrry David in The New Yorker, is that: David’s character is a semi-retired sitcom mogul who ambles throug
And here we are. I’m sitting in a cave with sixteen other people, because our “all terrain portable shelter” blew away in the last windstorm. Who could have guessed that this planet
At the horror show that is death penalty jurisprudence in the state of Texas has been getting some attention around here, I remember that I have been remiss in not giving a plug to a unique and excell
Tim Marhcman has an excellent piece noting that the superficially numbers-savvy Joe Girardi is actually a much worse percentage manager than the folksy-seeming Charlie Manuel: The quintessential Girar
“With Me As Your Law…Talkin’ Guy, Your Railroad to the Death Chamber is Ready!” It’s bad enough that various state officials conspired to murder Cameron Todd Willingham b
Because the world needs more parodies of Victor Davis Hanson: Morituri te salutant The Victory Column and vero possumus megalomania of 2008 have now led to the deification of Obama as our new Caesar,
I think whatever of my colleagues characterized this article on Twitter as “World Series that don’t include the Yankees invariably suck” was actually being unfair (although it would
- Theater Criticism Coverage of Politics Turns People’s Minds Into Mush
- Today In American Ethnic Cleansing
- Catch A Wave
- Christian Persecution
- Yes, In Fact I Do Like It When Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Adopt My Precise Policy Positions
- Ever More IP
- This Day in Labor History: April 21, 1545
- It’s Like 10,000 Spoons When All You Need Is An FBI Director Who Won’t Tamper With Elections
- How Your Godawful Contrarian Sausage Gets Made
- A Big Tent Democratic Party is Probably Not a Major Problem