I’d like to thank that venerable franchise, the Cleveland Indians, for two things. First, a display of power hitting the likes of which I’ve never seen, and may never see again, and second, a crushing death blow to any attempt to sustain serious optimism about the M’s young pitching.
Month: July 2004
The NLRB decided today, in a 3-2, straight party-line vote, to claim that since graduate students are students, they are therefore not employees, even if they perform labor services in exchange for m
Lesson #1: Frequently preface your comments with random non-sequitors meant to imply some sort of contradiction or inconsistency in the candidates position. Logic or plausibility not necessary. While
A few stats from John Olerud’s days as a Seattle Mariner: 2nd highest career OBP in Mariners history, which is no small feat considering he played in Safeco, rather than the Kingdome 9th highest career slugging percentage in Mariners history, which tells you more about the Ms than it does about Olerud. 6th highest career […]
Because maybe the Republicans will think a little bit harder the next time they’re tempted to deploy bigotry as a wedge issue. On that subject, the Bush administration’s handling of the g
This is an anonymous source, so we can’t draw too much from this, but I’m hoping this’ll start a trend of FNC whistleblowers. And the emailer is exactly right that as appalling as B
Fox is reporting a plan by Florida law enforcement authorities to recruit exterminators and cable repairmen to report on suspicious activities in the homes that they visit. Supposed to catch terrorists. I think they would do much better to recruit the boys from “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.” You can always tell a terrorist by […]
This interview, which will be much blogged about–although I can’t see anyone topping Jesse Taylor, so I won’t try. But, really, it’s worth the free ad. Perhaps better, though,
I’ve always admired Le Marseillaise as the finest of national anthems, but I don’t believe I ever knew quite how bloodthirsty it was. Here a link to the lyrics, via Matt Yglesias.
This quote makes the rounds every couple of months. It’s hardly a new discovery, but we probably should make posting it a regular feature as long as W is president: Trying to eliminate Saddam…would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible…We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule […]
In the cloture vote today, only 3 Dems crossed: Zig-zag Zell and Nelson, definitive “nominal Democrats,” and Robert Byrd. With Byrd, I’m not sure if it’s some obscure constitu
In the process of tepidly defending the indefensible, Rich Lowry gets something (mostly) right: Andrew Sullivan has been playing increasingly tendentious word games with the labels he applies to sup