Erik beat me to the Oliver Stone/Power Broker* project. And yet, I think it might be more promising than fellow Belaborer of the Obvious Alan Ball** doing a movie about George Tiller. Fans of actors reading lengthy position papers telling you things you already know...
Month: October 2011
Paul's recent framework is also highly applicable to what we'll charitably call wingnut economic thinking. See also. Speaking of wingnuttery, Thers wins the Carl Palmer Award for best lame prog.
I dunno, I was hoping for a little more drama. ...And those of us rooting for a Game 7 above all get their reward. What a classic. But I'm not.
Too many worthy stories today, too little time to write them up. If humans playing football suffer concussions, why don't woodpeckers? Oliver Stone directing a film about Robert Moses based on Caro's The Power Broker sounds very unpromising. The drought in the Southwest affects all...
Why did anti-Iraq War protests never reach the crescendo of their anti-Vietnam predecessors? There's been some decent scholarly work on the determinants of public support for wars, but as a.
This sucks: An estimated 200 North Korean nationals are in Libya and previously worked as doctors, nurses and construction workers, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. They had been dispatched.
I have a piece up at Alternet about the myth of Robert Bork. Nocera's representative whining notwithstanding, the defeat of Bork wasn't unprecedented, it wasn't obstructionist, it was justified, and it was crucial to maintaining fundamental constitutional rights. And there's a reason why so...
Yesterday, Occupy Oakland approved a motion for a general strike, to be called for November 2. I'm curious to see where this goes. General strikes have always had trouble gaining.
Why on earth would Mitt Romney wade into the SB-5 fight in Ohio? John Kasich's union-busting bill is extremely unpopular and is about to go down to a crushing defeat..
Neyer has more on Scioscia trying to rationalize his horrible misjudgment of Napoli. A few points: The Napoli for an $85 million anvil deal is the most irrational organizational move in many, many years, and everyone with decision-making authority in the Angels organization has to...
I've been making it through the many Looney Tunes collections over the past couple of years. Last night, I watched "I Love to Singa" for the first time in a.
Oh. So that's how it is. Well, whatever. I want to make a pledge* right now to all readers of LGM; we will NEVER** go corporate, or sell out, or.