General Schwartz, Air Force Chief of Staff: All right, all right — some people have to play little games. You play yours. So let’s just say that you’ll give me 60 more F-22s because it is in your interest to give them to me. But I want your answer and the planes by noon tomorrow. […]
Month: April 2009
J. Swiderski of “bail this out” has won the LGM Tourney Challenge. Mr./Ms. Swiderski’s victory was clinched by North Carolina’s crushing victory over what purported to be the M
One thing to add to Dahlia Lithwick’s superb defense of Harold Koh is a comparison with the Bork nomination, allegedly the Most Uncivil Moment in American History (at least before the era of blo
West: 1. LA 2. ARI 3. COL 4. SF 5. SD I’ll pretty much go chalk here. Signing Ramirez makes this a relatively easy call; their offense is by far the best in the division and the rotation and bullpen are both good. The top of their rotation aside I’ve thought many sabermetric types have […]
This seems like a very sensible take. As far as I can tell the charges of academic misconduct against Churchill are very, very thin gruel — as Fish says, mostly run-of-the-mill academic debates
Praise your preferred deity for baseball. Cincinnati has stepped up to the plate with an offering of 37 degrees and snow; it was 71 yesterday. Hopefully it will be better on Wednesday, when Dr. Lemieu
Shorter Jonah Goldberg: Libertarians are actually obliged to ignore the systematic effects of state interventions I favor (like the War (On Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs), as well as policies that the National Review has traditionally supported (like apartheid at home and abroad.) To add to Holbo’s defense of Wilkinson, allow me […]
Chapter XVI of From Colony to Superpower covers the Kennedy and Johnson years. Erik has some additional thoughts on chapter XV; check them out. The time periods covered by chapters have shortened from
I’d like to see how this question was worded: [UPDATE: I had misread the link, and thought that wording was only available to premium subscribers. Make the numbers even more wacky; totally elimi
Rather than continue the argument in comments, a few responses to Paul’s arguments against Varnum: It’s worth distinguishing between two arguments that Paul seems to be shifting between, one of which is true but trivial and one of which is potentially interesting but (at best) unsupported. It is, of course, true, that the text of […]
North Korea finally launches. There don’t seem to have been any premature shootdowns. See? That wasn’t so scary…
…I believe that it’s down to Shooting in the Dark vs. bail this out in the LGM Tourney Bracket. I’ve set up the 2009 LGM Baseball Challenge league. Apologies for tardiness; the first