http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v9IXwFb_cg George Galloway, former Labour (he was kicked out of the party in 2003) current "Respect Party" MP for Bradford West, and global lefty gadfly, is suing the National Union of Students for libel. Yes, he fights what he and others consider to be "the...
Month: October 2012
After a few technical hiccups, we couldn't be happier with our minor slight re-design (thanks again to vs.) Unfortunately, during the transition the post I wrote on March 31st predicting.
I know Jon Gruden means "amnesia," since he's talking about Dez Bryant forgetting that he's being paid millions of dollars to catch balls. But as a fan of speculative fiction,.
I'm so old I remember when the Red Sox were considered to be one of the best organizations in baseball. Alas, I lack the hermeneutical chops that would be necessary to reconstruct such a strange, distant universe.
(One of the visual rhetoric posts born of this course. If it seems a little more basic than the rest of those posts, that's because it's the first real day.
Eric Hobsbawm and Barry Commoner, RIP both.
When I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago, I argued that voter fraud "simply doesn't exist". Mea maxima culpa. Unsurprisingly, the right has, yet again, beat the opposition to the punch, and have done so quite cleverly. They have framed the issue of...
Wow, Paul Ryan has even lost the newspaper that inexplicably signs Robert Samuelson's paychecks. The declining reputation of the zombie-eyed granny starver is shocking to me; normally, once somebody gets.
So, you're the New York Jets, self-proclaimed most impressive team in football, despite missing the playoffs. Your defense -- good. But your offense features a below-average QB (flashes of promise.
As you may have noticed, we have a new banner and a new logo. As you can see, we're still working through some technical difficulties with regards to fitting the banner onto the header, and in general we're still tweaking the appearance of the site;...
It's always reassuring to know that you can go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. I eagerly wait Glenn Reynolds's post bout how this bellyflop is meaningless because.
In addition to the reasons Krugman mentions, there's the even more powerful issue that grand bargains aren't actually enforceable. Even if you could reach a deal to cut the deficit.