Gregg Easterbrook declares that Eli Manning is a better quarterback than Peyton Manning: Eli Manning is now a better quarterback than Peyton Manning. At the current rate, his career achievements will at least match, and perhaps surpass, his big brother’s. Four games into his fifth season, Eli is 44-30 as a starter and has a […]
Month: October 2008
I only allude to the point in this column, but what makes people like Ayers and Kissinger similar is that, if your socio-economic status is high enough, it’s very difficult not to remain “
Obama did his job (very well if you go by the instapolls.) Even if the numbers soften, in the big picture it’s a major victory. If you’ll forgive the analogy that I became fond of after be
And I do mean white. In case you’re not interested in doing a header into a cyber-sewer, here are some highlights: “I have 14 grandchildren . I do not want them growing up for the next four years, in a society ran by a banana republic would be president. And a wife who has an […]
Discuss away if you’re so inclined… [from davenoon]: I, for one, am glad to know that John McCain won’t be appointing Tom Brokaw as Treasury Secretary. And that he might be thinking
A commenter protests in re: my assumption that the media will, as it always does, forgive John McCain his appalling campaign: The media loved McCain for certain traits, traits that he’s abandone
I regret that I must disagree with Atrios when he said that “conservatives can’t whine that their hilarious vision [in An American Carol] was censored by the evil liberals.” Sadly, this underestimates the ability of modern conservatives to ride the waaaabmulance. I particularly treasure the idea that it’s likely evidence of “fraud” if there are “image […]
Erik Loomis makes a stalwart defense of Seattle’s Alaska Way Viaduct, recently named the Worst Freeway in America: The road sucks in a lot of ways. A big earthquake would remind us all of the Ba
Shorter Verbatim Assrocket: The fundamentals of the economy are indeed strong, and John McCain shouldn’t hesitate to say so. I agree! Never mind that GDP is a more or less meaningless indicator
That’s apparently as good an explanation as any for the strange behavior of NFL coaches at the end of games. For instance, tonight Minnesota gets to the New Orleans 14-yard-line in a tie game with 1:10 to go. The Saints have two time outs left, which means that if the Vikings run the ball three […]
Ezra presents an optimistic perspective about whether McCain’s “dishonor before death” campaign will damage his reputation, at least if he loses. I’m not as sure. In the long-t
Adam Liptak has a useful roundup, noting that the Court does not have any “blockbusters” comparable to last year’s Second Amendment, death penalty, and war powers decisions. There ar