Zoe Kentucky notes that the holiday seems to have been met with a gift. Now if only Fitzgerald would step up...in the meantime, happy Rosh Hashana to all our readers.
Month: October 2005
It's funny because it's true.However logical it might be for conservatives to scuttle the Miers nomination to get someone they can be more sure about, I think Matt is basically.
Wow. The Shiite and Kurdish factions seem to have given up on any effort to make the constitutional referendum seem legitimate in Sunni areas. I'm ambivalent. On the one hand,.
I see a couple strategies for defending Bush's cronyism have already emerged. Jonathan Adler tries to suggest that Roberts was so incredibly well-qualified that Bush had nowhere to go but down :"Does her record match that of Chief Justice Roberts? Of course not-- but whose...
Scott (I think; can't find his best of the 90's post) [SL: it's here] and I both consider this one of the 10 best films of the 90's. The Northwest.
The most suprising thing about Kentucky has been the sectarian violence. I am told that they hunt Lexingtonians for sport in Louisville. My students and I were recently drafted for.
Slappy's drowning in his own tears: Showalter removed starters Michael Young, Mark Teixeira and Hank Blalock for pinch-runners in the third inning against the Angels on Sunday. The Texas Rangers led 4-1 after three innings, but the Angels rallied for a 7-4 victory and earned...
Interesting; I know several people thought that Bush would pick someone very close to him--which makes sense given the pervasiveness of cronyism within the administration--and I suppose Bush thought Miers.
Kevin Drum asks a question asked by many because Hollywood is having an off year financially--why are movies so bad? My answer is that I reject the premise. Not the.
Given the recommendation of several internet luminaries, and since I'm now down to exactly zero shows I feel compelled to watch, I thought I would start watching it regularly this year, but missed the premiere. It happened to be replayed tonight, so I watched. It...
I was aware that Michael Crichton was guilty of many aesthetic and political atrocities, most notably 6th-rate novels and screenplays larded with laughably bad science, vicious misogyny, and less-than-prophetic xeonophobia..
An eternal classic in the bottom of the second: "Derek Jeter couldn't get the groundball hit right at him because he had the sun at his back."And the Sox, after.