but at least it will SAVE SAVE SAVE £65 million. Because, when the public debt is at some obscene number, and when the annual deficit is approaching 12% of GDP, £65 million will get the UK back on sound financial footing. Of course, if they’re really concerned with turnout, they just might take a peek […]
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
Could you please stop with the idiotic baserunning? Love,Scott Share
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
Via Chet, this is kind of eery/scary. Share
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
According to this story, that’s what happened. The most disturbing aspect of Deadspin’s account is that apparently the NBA didn’t claim that particular statements in the book were inaccurate. (Indeed it’s not clear that anyone in the league office has even seen a copy of the book). The league’s lawyers simply told Random House that […]
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