Pitchfork brings the snark:For a while now, Tom Waits has been threatening to drop a live album document of his 2008 Glitter and Doom tour on us. And today, Waits' new website announced all the details. Glitter and Doom is due November 24 from Anti-,...
Month: October 2009
I'm off to Canada tomorrow to present a paper on the relationship between asylum seekers and support for far-right parties in English local elections (authored with a Ph.D. student of.
I've been meaning to find the time to write about this, but Daniel over at Crooked Timber makes a lot of the same points that I wanted to make in.
Manager of the Year or no, Jim Tracy is the latest manager to cost his team a shot at a championship because The Closer has to pitch the 9th inning regardless of context. I don't know about you, but when the other team has a...
During an extended discussion about the formal mechanics of the word-picture relation comics, I coined what I called "Scott's Rule #23":[T]he percentage of time spent lecturing other people about how.
Ask your doctor if cultural hysteria is right for you.Couple of notes:(1) "Obesity" among infants is currently defined by the CDC by taking what was the 95th percentile of height-weight.
Yay!The Chicago Cubs baseball team filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, a step that will allow its corporate parent to sell the team in an $845 million deal.Tragically for baseball and for America, the Cubs will nevertheless be allowed to field a team next...
Malcom Gladwell asks a very good question.I'm a huge college football fan and like my NFL fix too. This article is to put it mildly extremely disturbing.I don't know whether.
While most conservatives would be outraged if Barack Obama managed to win a blueberry pie at a 4H raffle, others would simply mutter and cluck their tongues out of feigned.
Can we please stop hearing this nonsense now? And because of that dumbshit Punto I'm going to have to be hearing about St. Jeter's latest great play all playoffs now too......wow, Joe Nathan unable to get a key out against the Yankees, what a surprise!...
Dave Henderson's home run in game six of the 1986 ALCS almost killed me; since that time I have managed to muster no more than grudging support for the Red.
Chucky K has vomited forth a mass over at the Weekly Standard that some people apparently find impressive. The key observation is that American decline is optional, not inevitable. There's.