There's been nothing more heartwarming to me over the past five years than the ill-fated marriage between Rick Neuheisal and the University of Washington Athletic Department. Neuheisal, as you may know, is one of the slimiest creatures on the planet. Some years ago he crept...
Month: March 2005
Chronicle of Higher Education, via Kat, via Bitch Ph.D. Dear Adjunct Faculty Member: It's come to our attention that we may have openings to teach two upper-level classes next fall, and although.
One more reason I won't have to worry about spending my winters in Tehran. Via Matt. Does the Israel Defense Forces believe incoming recruits and soldiers who play Dungeons and Dragons are.
Our new UN ambassador. Also, our new big "FUCK YOU!!!" to the international community. Digby has the goods. Also Think Progress.
Damn. The sole redeeming quality of fraternity life, as far as I can tell, is the heavy drinking. If it's only about gay-bashing and pursuing a "biblical lifestyle," what the hell.
As a follow-up on Scott's excellent post below, see this new blog-within-a-blog at TPM. Pretty cool, for those of us who like to rubberneck at this slow-motion train-wreck. The blog.
Since paperwight argues convincingly that the Dayton Amendment would not have pre-empted tougher state laws, I think the Democratic Senators who voted against should be called out and held to account. So, here is a list of Democratic Senators For Usury: Baucus (D-MT) Biden (D-DE)...
This Phoebe Maltz post (via Yglesias) raises some interesting issues. But more than anything, it reinforces my belief that "gentrification" is, at least as a normative concept, entirely worthless. (And, at.
Turning on the Way Back Machine this afternoon. I'm sure that a lot of you are familiar with this story; I've been reading Robert Massie's Castles of Steel, and he.
What issue can bring together Kevin Drum and John Cole? The recent bankruptcy "reform" that looks like it might finally emerge, dripping a trail of rancid slime as it crawls on its belly, from Congress. In a sense, this should not be surprising. Non-libertarian conservatives and non-Marxist...
Atrios provides some interesting data: Let's take a look at the 2000 election results for Santorum. He ran against an anti-choice Democrat, Ron Klink, who despite being a fairly bad.