Nice to come back and see that Sheldon Silver has killed the harebrained West Side Stadium scheme of Mayor Richie Rich and his dog Dollar [(c)Alicublog]. Even for state-funded stadium boondoggles, a mutli-billion dollar football stadium in Manhattan is a remarkably bad idea. I mean, the arguments about economic benefits brought about by such things […]
Month: June 2005
We have successfully returned from Las Vegas. More details to come later, I’m sure. Once again, let me thank our guest bloggers, Matt Duss of What is the War, Erik Loomis of Alterdestiny, and Io
Via M-Pyre comes this story of a Kansas state senator, Kay O’Connor, who despite being a female politician, is opposed to women’s suffrage. She is now running for Secretary of State in Kan
Isn’t it wonderful when new technology can revive a classic? Some things never go out of style… (via Have Opinion, Will Travel) Update: A commenter notes that this is actually a hoax. Okay, well, at least an appellate judge was also taken in, so I don’t have to feel quite so silly…
I wonder if the Production Code was the worst thing to ever happen to Hollywood movies. I love silents and the early sound films as much for the glimpse they give into life at the time as for the movi
Here’s one take: U.S., Iraqi Forces Find Huge Bunker Network U.S. and Iraqi forces searching Iraq’s western province of Anbar on Saturday uncovered a network of bunkers hidden in a vast un
Via Andrew Sullivan, here’s former Nixon speechwriter (and Ferris’s economics teacher) Ben Stein completely losing his shit: We read that Mark Felt’s family and Mark Felt put out their story solely to make money off it. So, this makes the family’s karma even more unnerving. The father, patriarch, Mark, took out his anger and frustration […]
Very good piece by Charlie Cray on Chris Cox, newly appointed chairman of the SEC. Short version: putting Chris Cox in charge of the SEC is like putting a fox with a deep fat fryer in charge of the he
Amanda at Pandagon points out that one conservative argues against gay marriage thusly: Can people who think anonymous sex isn’t cheating on their partner really be considered married? Booty-bum
Eighties fashion (without irony), Bruce Willis when he was hot — and had hair. It’ll be less fun when we get to the rape episode.
Can anyone give me a good reason to not use split infinitives? I just don’t see any meaningful reason not to. Part of this is principle. I believe in an ever-evolving language and that rules of
I think a real weakness of progressives is our lack of knowledge of our opponents. We think we know about the Right but I don’t see a whole lot of evidence that we do. How many of us have spent