Janice Rogers Brown, appointed by George W. Bush to the august D.C. Circuit., argues that the courts should start throwing out economic regulations she doesn't like. Based...well, not on any specific constitutional provision, but because the Constitution generally establishes "cowboy capitalism." It's becoming hard for...
Month: April 2012
Congrats to Jamie Moyer on his 268th major league victory: Moyer earned that elusive win for the ages in his third start of the season. His age is 49 years,.
Shorter Tom Friedman: I shall celebrate my Wanker of the Decade title by writing a column about how we need a third party candidate who represents moderate conservative values already.
Hard to argue with this choice. The thing about the definitive "suck on this" moment is how utterly asinine the surrounding analysis is. How, exactly, is terrorism like a stock-market bubble? But when you defend disastrous wars in exclusively in terms of business-book cliches and...
This would never happen at Oregon: A piece of history from the University of Alabama's championship run was shattered on Saturday afternoon following the Crimson Tide's annual A-Day scrimmage. Alabama's.
I greatly enjoyed Jason Zengerle's interview with Barney Frank, but I'm puzzled that Frank continues to take the Rahm Emanuel line on health care reform: When Obama made the same.
I do plan on analyzing all the Mad Men episodes, but the one about thyroid cancer hit too close to home, so I'm a bit behind, and I suck at re-cap. (But you all know that.) Honestly, I've received numerous emails about this, so I...
Merits a particularly strong MZS essay.
File under "I can't believe this actually made it through peer review". If you've been wondering what Thomas Hobbes really had to say about Beethoven, your wait is over. Adrian.
Virginia Heffernan reads Katie Roiphe so you don't have to: Over a series of bad-faith and gibberish paragraphs, she sets up the reader as a hayseed who is turned on by lite porn because she's never seen how they do it in Berlin or whatever;...
The pitches thrown to Cody Ross in the last AB in today's Red Sox/Rays game. 3 were called strikes. If you pay attention to such things you probably could have.
Rhode Island seems like it would be the nation's bluest state. While an former Republican holds the governor's office, Democrats dominate the legislature by a 6-1 margin. But it doesn't.