Geoff Baker has a decent, and balanced, post on the construction of the historically inept offense of the 2011 Seattle Mariners (unfortunately, my preferred team playing “baseball” since 1977). Placing the current edition of the Mariners into historical context, Baker offers us this to assuage our pain: The Mariners open play tonight with an OPS+ […]
Month: July 2011
It’s possible that some education “reformers” really do care about improving childhood education. But many of them care about union-busting much, much more.
The Netflix price spike annoys me as much as everyone else. I don’t mind paying for my films, and indeed I do, but the combination of the on-demand and mail services is extraordinarily annoying.
I’ve talked before about how young progressive bloggers don’t seem to have too much interest in labor history or labor issues more broadly. Of course, most of the voices in this debate are familiar. So it’s nice to hear someone I haven’t read before weigh in, a young writer at one of the Kos diaries. […]
In my latest WPR column, I discuss the old Red Dawn, the new Red Dawn, and the reluctance of the current crop of GOP presidential aspirants to focus on the security aspect of US relations with China:
(1) With the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-in coming up, I’m struck by how durable the practice of making a portmanteau word out of any scandal and “gate” has been. I guess
Like most of you, I am absolutely shocked that Lenny Dykstra would prove to be a complete fraud. Not fresh news here I know, but it actually is amazing that so many athletes would turn to Dykstra for investment advice. I mean, what could possibly have gone wrong. Of course, this fluff piece by Ben […]
Obama endorses repealing the Defense of Marriage Act. Good for him. Let’s see if it happens. It will soon, if not in 2011. Also, it’d be nice if Democrats realized that the strategies behi
Who could have known that Michael Oren wasn’t an entirely reliable source regarding Israel’s military plans? After all, he totally predicted that Israel would strike Iran within eighteen
The headline that ran yesterday for this article implied that the writing was on the wall for the Cameron government. I thought then that this was overstated, and indeed this morning the headline has changed to the more muted “Opponents Seize on Cameron’s Ties to Suspects”. Fresh polling evidence is consistent with my instinct that this has […]
Since it’s become a trend here at LGM, I shall be gone on a honeymoon for the next 10 days. My presence here will therefore be sporadic. Have fun and don’t feed any trolls while I’m
…but apparently the Anthony prosecutors presented evidence they knew, or should have known, to be inaccurate. I’m sure that they thought they were framing a guilty individual, but then don