I'm in the midst of a five film long Rocky marathon on Spike. My thoughts...The first film is an immortal classic, as long as one can accept melodrama. If you try to approach Rocky with any sense of irony, you've already given away the game;...
Month: October 2007
The question of whether Byrd on full rest or Sabathia on short rest start tonight really is the kind of question that's empirically unknowable. The difference between Byrd and Sabathia.
Matt disagrees with me that Dobson is probably bluffing about a third-party run if Giuliani is the nominee. I don't mean to discount the possibility entirely, but I do think.
Although Columbus Day has its roots in 19th century secular fantasy -- specifically, an odd blend of Anglo-American nationalism and Italian-American ethnic pride -- since the Nixon administration the second Monday in October has been set aside to acknowledge the accomplishments of one of mid-millennial...
Here's my question: Why is Bill Kristol accorded any more respect in the media than Lyndon Larouche?
Shorter Dr. Helen: Men are "screwed" by laws preventing domestic violence because they don't have the political power to influence the laws. And a random anecdote about David Letterman provides.
Via Yglesias, I watched this ad, which apparently aired during the Redskins game yesterday (I wouldn't know). There's much that's good about this ad; encouraging parents to talk to their kids about sex seems commonsense to me. But given that it was paid for and...
It's hard to figure out how to react to this Michael O'Hanlon column on health care. The first thought that struck me was "What the hell is Michael O'Hanlon doing.
One major reason I always strongly opposed the Iraq war is that my graduate training entailed some study of the difficulties of state-building. Building stable states, let alone liberal democracies,.
Please never try to write satire in another voice ever again. I've been thinking for a while at picking some of the Pulitzer-winning columns from 1999 at random and seeing just how debased the standards of whoever votes for those awards are. But I'm not...
By now we all know about Bush's politically stupid and unconscionable veto of Congress's bill expanding S-CHIP, the health care program that would cover kids whose families are not poor.
Good god:More than 300 people were picked up by ambulances along the course, many of them suffering from nausea, heart palpitations and dizziness from the stifling heat, fire officials said..