Shorter Verbatim Jay Nordlinger: “I think many of my conservative colleagues are far too gingerly when it comes to liberal media bias. Far too timid, delicate, and forgiving.” I can’t wait for Nordlinger’s follow-up about how the Azzuri are just too timid about trying to get fouls called in their favor by exaggerating or inventing […]
Month: June 2010
I’ll be mostly off the grid traveling for the next two and half weeks, and I want to thank LGM readers for your many suggestions as to what I should take with me – a comments thread that i
For the reasons cited by Barbara, this would-be Elena Kagan “scandal” about changed wording in an American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists position paper — being promoted
The ritual of the Kagan hearings makes for a disgusting spectacle, but hey, Bismark, sausage, whatever.
So, you’re down 6-3 in the bottom of the 6th inning. Your starting pitcher has given up all six of those runs, and his spot comes up with two outs and a man on second. Do you pinch hit for h
Jeffrey Goldberg is evidently insisting — with the dubious aid of Eli Lake and evidence to the contrary — that Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda once had a “potentially meaningful relation
Actually, that’s not true. Indeed, I should emphasize that this is not an anti-soccer post; it is an “anti-using egregious cherry-picking to exaggerate the popularity of soccer as a spectator sport in the United States” post. Not only because the claims are empirically erroneous, but because who cares? The whole genre of writing that involves […]
The Montreal Jazz Festival. Also, this is more about “French” than “Canadian,” but sweetbreads are awesome. For Upstate New Yorkers, I especially recommend the Egyptian-style o
One difference between England and the USA when it comes to their respective soccer sides is that whenever England crash out of a tournament instead of winning it (the latter is the expectation), it l
As we saw once again yesterday, conservatives on the Supreme Court are in favor of them. I’ve made this point before, but in my experience if you bring up the idea that there’s any possible constitutional issue with the Hyde Amendment conservatives will react as if this was the nuttiest thing in the world — […]
I’ve been using a local coffee bar as my office for parts of this summer when not in the coding lab for my agenda-setting project. Besides some excellent lattes and a new appreciation for white
This is incomparably awesome: Via Duss.