Month: February 2012
Kindly old Ron Paul has some, ah, thoughts about abortion and something called "honest rape" in which reprehensible moral sentiments and utter incoherence struggle valiantly for the upper hand.
I've been wrong about a lot of things, but Eli Manning was at the top of the list. Today, he (and Manningham) made the plays, and Brady (and Welker, although.
Via Outside the Beltway, A story about the resurgence of some of the more baroque aspects of Tea Party activism and local politics in the New York Times today. My.
Interesting Times article on the battle between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and areas of Illinois over upgrading levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Essentially, the Army Corps.
Yesterday, 6 players were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I was particularly excited by the inclusion of the great Seattle Seahawk Cortez Kennedy, one of my favorite.
I had an interesting twitter exchange (@ErikLoomis) today with Andy Bowen (@andymbowen) about John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. I was listening to Ornette's "The Shape of Jazz to Come" this.
While the Republican primary was essentially over after Rick Perry's Ambien-and-Tito's Vodka debate performance, the stories now emerging about Newton Leroy's amusingly inept campaign do contain an important lesson. .
Yesterday Alyona and I chatted about Afghanistan: The technical difficulties 6 minutes in threw me off a bit...