Wilson and Snell to Seattle; Clement, Cedeno, Pribanic, Lorin and Adcock to Pittsburgh.I'm now no longer sure that Jack Z. can cure cancer, solve the Middle East, or work out how to properly run my university.The Mariners overpaid. And I'm struggling to work out why...
Month: July 2009
Ezra objects to my post arguing that it might be better to reject a bill that sells out too much to the Blue Dogs:But it's also worth offering a more.
Ross Douthat gets the ball rolling:These twists and turns make Iraq look less like either Vietnam or World War II — the analogies that politicians and pundits keep closest at.
I think it's pretty obvious that a health care bill with no public option and no employer mandate is worse than no bill at all.
Math is hard!
This is kind of cool:Eminent economists have told Queen Elizabeth II that the global financial downturn was brought about by a "psychology of denial" among the financial and political elite,.
I don't necessary agree with every nuance -- to say that law isn't determinate is different than saying that there is "no law" -- but I'm still gratified to see this kind of analysis in a major publication:In her opening statement before the Senate Judiciary...
Nothing short of genius:
Omar Minaya.Aside from the bullying in and of itself -- perhaps an homage to the departed Bernazard? -- what's striking is that this is inept even as Machiavellian politics. Even.
Shorter Verbatim James Inhofe: "If their argument there is “Well, we don’t want to use oil and gas because we think it pollutes” — which it doesn’t." As if to prove this.
So opined Forward Brian Ching, following the US MNT's convincing roll over and die act on Sunday in the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. To the main rival.As I.
This ain't no good. Bunning was dead in the water; I suspect that Trey Grayson would have defeated Bunning in the Republican primary anyway, but the fight might have bloodied.