Who says local government doesn’t work in the District of Columbia? NEW YORK — Washington’s new baseball team shut down business and promotional operations indefinitely Wednesday as its move to the nation’s capital teetered on the brink of collapse. The decision by Major League Baseball followed the District of Columbia Council’s decision Tuesday night to require […]
Month: December 2004
Bobby Fischer is one crazy motherfucker. He’s been detained for some time in Japan on a visa violation; the US stripped him of his passport after he played Boris Spassky in a renegade champions
Looks as if I shouldn’t waste my time on the Earthsea miniseries. Leguin is pretty unhappy with the result. At this point, things began to move very fast. Early on, the filmmakers contacted me
If you get the chance, check out Geoffrey O’Brien’s immensely interesting review of two biographies of Cary Grant in the New York Review of Books. Three things I didn’t know about Cary Grant: 1. He was more or less homeless by the age of ten. His father forcibly committed Grant’s mother to an insane asylum, […]
is on full display in this ridiculous piece in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. What is it with Classics professors? He starts off with a little whining about he was given a low passing grade for ignorin
Based on my first (wine drenched) perusal, The Return of the King: Extended Edition is well worth the time and cash. Notable additions include a satisfactory end to Saruman’s story, Aragorn̵
It’s good that killing Uday and Qusay capturing Saddam handing over power to Allawi stomping Najaf destroying Falluja has broken the back of the insurgency. Otherwise, we’d have real problems in Iraq.
Apparently unable to say anything good about Iraq or bad about the sensible people that opposed the war, Chris Hitchens has turned his attention back to Afghanistan, and the War on Drugs. But first,
My question for Chris Vance: If King County was hell-bent on “stealing” this election, why didn’t they do it sooner? Why did they reject a higher percentage of ballots than the rest
Earlier this quarter in my American Foreign Policy class, I watched the original “Manchurian Candidate” with my students. This morning, day of the final exam, I walk in and find the following note: Final grade for everyone in Political Science 321: 4.0 Next to the note is an oversized Queen of Diamonds. Clever. Very clever. […]
Tim Noah directs you to the worst gift idea ever. By the way, shouldn’t the signature decrease the value in this case?
Dave and I have been considering a question of deep import over the last couple of days. What actors have played a President (fictional or actual) on television or in film more than once? We have the