Made my first visit to Rupp Arena on Saturday to watch the Kentucky Wildcats play the South Carolina Gamecocks for the 42nd time. Before Saturday, the Wildcats led the lifetime series 35-6. The experience at Rupp was quite unlike the experience at the other two arenas in which I’ve watched college basketball. Rupp is larger […]
Month: January 2006
Lord Saletan address the masses on the subject of abortion, with an op-ed predicated on a dismayingly predictable howler: If you support abortion rights, this idea may strike you as nuts. But look at
Well, any day in which NBC renews The Office and kills Will and Grace is one small ray of light for network TV. (There seems to be a widespread perception that the latter has declined; I can’t s
Two very, very interesting games this week, both of which would be pick ’ems on a neutral field. So I’m even more likely to be wrong than usual, but: In the AFC, while granting the folly of picking the Broncos at home (not to mention picking Cowher in a championship game) I’m going to pick […]
The construction of Dreadnought created a problem for the French Navy. The French had begun construction of a class of six advanced pre-dreadnoughts at almost the same time as Dreadnought. These ships
You know the “it’s their best work since x” critical argument, right? Like how Rolling Stone will claim that every new album by some any old fart Jann Wenner wants to suck up to is t
Yesterday evening involved another blogger summit, this time with Ezra, Matt, and Sam. The company was obviously very enjoyable, but alas I fear that the Brickskeller was disappointing. The two salient facts I remembered and was reminded of is that 1)they had an immense selection of beers, and 2)since they’re all in bottles, the quality […]
Since in all candor I don’t really care about the whole WaPo ombudsman thing, I thought I would pick on this baffling claim by the executive editor (who was once, amazingly, the sports editor):
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Chuckle.
Friday Cat Blogging… Sophie, Midnight, Snowball, Frankie
Wondering why Medvedite critic Michael Medved is no longer adhering to his highly desirable earlier argument that conservative hacks should ignore Brokeback Mountain and leave discussions about it to