Frequent commenter MHS requested that we write a bit about the WBC, and since that was my intention anyway… It would be wrong to say that I’m wildly enthusiastic about the WBC, but I’m happy that it’s being put on. I’m glad to see competitive baseball at any time of the year, and although Japan’s […]
Month: March 2006
Jeff Goldstein should probably go back to doing what he does well. I’m not sure what that is, really, but it can’t be blogging about national security. Regarding a report that some insurge
It was fun to watch him play. 1783 games.318/.370/.477207 home runs2 World Series rings (1987, 1991).296 lifetime EQA UPDATE: Joe Sheehan has a good column on Kirby.
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision written by Chief Justice Roberts, upheld the Solomon Amendment, thus forcing universities to permit the military to recruit on campus even if the military continues to violate their anti-discrimination rules. I think the decision is probably right–I agree that the amendment is constitutional, and while I found the […]
Via Magnus at Capital Cadre, this offering at The Officer’s Club is about the clearest distillation of an American fascism that I’ve ever seen. A selection: The problem with our world toda
Yet another argument about abortion by William Saletan. Whether it deserves more time than Elton gave it is I suppose debatable, but I can’t resist. A lot of his points and rhetorical feints are
Well, Dave Kehr called it. And it makes sense–granting that Brokeback is better described as “very, very good” than “great,” it was just too good to win Best Picture in this era. Crash, on the other hand, is exactly the kind of didactic, jejune middlebrow doorstop the Academy loves. Ugh. Just as bad (although it […]
Picture: Brokeback Director: Lee Actor: Hoffman Actress: Witherspoon Supporting Actor: Gyllenhall Supporting Actress: Weisz Original Screenplay: Good Night and Good Luck Adapted Screenplay: Brokeback
I swear that this post is currently the lead story at Train Wreck Media (TM) (Prof. Glenn Reynolds, co-founder): Someone else (and I regret forgetting who) has mentioned the humorous fact that Glenn R
I noted last year that Harper’s–within living memory an outstanding publication–has become worthless. Discouraging people from taking HIV treatments based on crackpottery straight from the pages of Spin magazine really is taking things to a whole new level of shittiness, however. What’s next, a cover story by Dean Esmay?
SMS Ostfriesland was the second ship of the Helgoland class, the second group of German dreadnoughts. Germany had been taken aback by the construction of HMS Dreadnought and HMS Invincible. The Kiel C
This will be of mild-to-no-interest to most readers, but the Patterson School just finished its 2006 Spring Simulation. A good time was had by all. The theme this year was a meeting of the North Atlan