Month: April 2013
The most important aspect of Jason Collins's decision to become the first theoretically employable openly gay male in a major American sport isn't that this "accomplishment" requires that many qualifiers,.
I wanted to share some quotes and links I found while I was out and about today. And by out and about I mean while sitting on my ass, indoors,.
Defending Tim Tebow's NFL performance requires some remarkable feats of illogic. In a classic of the genre, JfL provides the most tendentious statistical argument this side of Reinhart/Rogoff: It’s hilarious.
This Urban Institute report regarding wealth disparities and race/ethnicity is getting a lot of attention. Unfortunately, the report manipulates statistics to push a dubious conclusion, instead of emphasizing a progressive.
Finally, the active Big 4 sports professional athlete barrier is broken, as Wizards center Jason Collins comes out as gay. Let's hope it's the first of many. It'd be nice.
I dunno, somehow I prefer Scalia's belligerent, protesting-too-much defenses of his bad faith in Bush v. Gore to O'Connor's attempts to disassociate herself: “Obviously the court did reach a decision.
I know we coffee-drinking blue-state elitists are not supposed to care about George Jones (about Teachout's uncharacteristic cliched falsehood, I note only that the kind of Nashville country urban music.
Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov is a new biography of Field Marshal Georgy.