Two good games today, and a good time to reiterate that people who think that playoff football needs to be played in sterile environments in Southern suburbs are nuts. Packers (-3 1/2) over Bears. The Packers have the best QB in the conference, and a (slightly) better defense. Playing at home and with Hester the […]
Month: January 2011
So The Times ran an op-ed the other day about the history of anti-vaccination fears. The piece was written by Michael Willrich, a very good historian of the progressive era whose forthcoming book on t
If MSNBC decides to go “respectable,” they can do worse than Mr. Matthew Duss: If “incendiary” is the preference, then I cannot recommend Joe “Media Czech” Sonka hi
Cheating’s not just for cyclists: An announcement on Friday on the French Chess Federation’s Web site accuses three of its own players of cheating during last year’s Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The players accused of cheating are grandmasters Sébastien Feller, France’s fifth-ranked player, Arnaud Hauchard, No. 16 in the country, and Cyril Marzolo, an […]
I can’t really claim vindication over having predicted that the Angels’ run as rulers of the AL West would end in 2010, given that I had been erroneously predicting it for years before it
Out. Not shocking in the grand scheme of things, I suppose. He provided definitive proof that liberal cable news could sell, an important accomplishment. One of his last stands didn’t exactly co
Is Lanny “I’d write op-eds calling Robert Mugabe a great democratic leader for 50 bucks” Davis the Joe Lieberman of political consultants, or is Joe Lieberman the Lanny Davis of the U.S. Senate?
Various winger blogs — including Time‘s 2004 Blog of the Year — attack Chris Christie for appointing a Muslim to the state courts. I wish this was satire.
I have some thoughts inspired by Jon Cohn’s article about constitutional challenges to the ACA. The short version is that I doubt that even a scenario where the Supreme Court strikes down the ma
This year’s Blog For Choice question: Given the anti-choice gains in the states and Congress, are you concerned about choice in 2011? The answer, of course, is “absolutely.” The practical access that many women have to safe abortions is already pretty dire, and given the 2010 elections the situation is going to get worse before […]
Greg Mankiw.
Some amusing nastiness from James Wolcott, on the development of the next hit reality TV show, tentatively entitled Reality. Like soul brother Beck, Sarah Palin has moonshot herself into a zero-gravit