Given that the 2013-14 series is in Australia, I'm not following it as closely as 2005, 2009, or this past summer. Instead, I've been waking up each morning to the first two words I learned about cricket: "England collapse". And collapse they have. All they...
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It's illegal to be a (small-r, not batshit crazy R) republican in the United Kingdom. Indeed, it's illegal to so much as imagine a United Kingdom without the, you know,.
Plymouth Labour Party activist John Petrie has some unequivical things to say about the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and the Conservative Party: Following the two World Wars, successive.
Don't seem to be making much of a difference. In the year since Newton, CT, the states have been busy with gun legislation. On balance, they've relaxed restrictions, rather than making more sensible legislation that balances the rights and responsibilities of owning a firearm. 109...
This essay on the current experience at the University of Michigan published on Inside Higher Ed, made the rounds last week. Titled "Corporate Values", it includes several quotes that speak.
I get atypically angry -- seriously pissed off -- at the discourse surrounding gun control in the United States. This, in part, explains the colourful language I employed while digesting.
Well, duh. Unfortunately, that's not what happened last week in northwestern Georgia, where a 72 year-old, with Alzheimer’s, Deanne Westbrook, wandered into a stranger's yard three miles from home. He twice tried to open the door, around 4am, then wandered out into the yard. Instead...
Here is a pretty cool map of precinct-level support in three Seattle municipal races from last month: mayoral (Ed Murray v incumbent Mike McGinn), one city council seat (socialist Kshama Sawant.
The Mariners sign 36 year-old "scrappy" veteran Willie Bloomquist, possessor of both a pedigree with the M's, and a local connection, to a two-year contract at between $2.5 and $3.
Or so states perhaps the most interesting email I received today on my work account (just nudging out a solicitation to submit a manuscript to the Beijing Law Review). Said "book" is never mentioned by title in the email, nor does it appear available on...
Distasteful on several levels, "Black Friday" annually generates stories such as this one,[*] to the point where we need Black Friday Death Count, keeping track so you don't have to. Black.
A few days ago the Prime Minister published an op-ed in the Financial Times (paywall) on the back of Government musings about placing restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants to.