Heartiest congratulations to Rob on his postdoc! This blog can only be improved by a perspective from Real America, and by all accounts I’ve heard Lexington is a fine town. As is often the case, I believe this celebration requires Randy Newman in the background: Turpentine and dandelion wineI’ve turned the corner and I’m doin’ […]
Month: April 2005
By a 2-1 vote, the Central Committee of Lawyers, Guns and Money has decided to establish a “Red State” bureau in Lexington, Kentucky. It is believed that much of our appalling performance
Nathan Newman, Sam Rosenfeld, and Brad Plumer are of course correct–the filibuster rule in the Senate has been one of the most potent weapons that American reactionaries have had, and it would b
I knew Bobby Madritsch was a risk. I thought he would last longer than four innings.
Ah, this is more like it: M Rivera (L, 1-1; B, 2) 0.2 3 5 1 3 1 0 38-18 10.80 And Slappy Rodriguez making the key error is just icing on the cake… Is this now four blown saves in four opportunit
I can always trust Lance Mannion to have a wonderful set of observations on an obscure group of topics that I never considered thinking about before I read his blog. A couple of my favorites include t
Imagine my suprise when, while channel surfing this morning, I come across a showing of The Manchurian Candidate. What, you say? Not so surprising? Yes, but one does not typically find a film like The Manchurian Candidate on the Encore True Stories channel.
It’s possible that Rummy said this with a straight face: “I don’t have any evidence…” that Venezuela will turn over some of the weapons to Colombian rebels, Rumsfeld told
Via Pandagon, Jonah Goldberg writes: I guarantee you that among PhD candidates in America’s leading universities, for every “conservative” who believes the world was created in six days there ar
Lindsay notes that Saul Bellow, who many smart people consider the greatest American novelist of the past century (and who was born in Lachine, a suburb of my beloved Montreal), has passed away. The superb critic Terry Teachout has comments that are interesting, in that they probably reflect the general position of most of my […]
Congratulations to Seb at Sadly, No! and his partner, who will be having their first child in June. To ask the most obvious question, will the child take his/her father’s name, or will he/she ju
Alright, I guess now that we’re Opening Day +2, I’d better offer my predictions for the upcoming season. So: AL East: NY, Bos (WC), Bal, Tor, TBYou won’t see these picks anywhere els