As the Libyan rebels seem finally to be making some tortuously slow military progress, the political front threatens to fall apart: Rebel leaders dissolved their own cabinet on Monday, in an effort to placate the family of an assassinated rebel military leader and quiet discord in a movement...
Month: August 2011
Nina Power in the Guardian on the larger context of the London riots: Those condemning the events of the past couple of nights in north London and elsewhere would do.
Today is Victory Day, a Rhode Island state holiday. The only state to celebrate the day, it commemorates the victory over Japan in World War II. It is a state.
As America prepares to party like it's 1899, we need to ponder whether you can tell anything by looking into a man's (or woman's) eyes. Lisa: You know Bart, Pablo Neruda says the eyes are mirrors of the soul. Bart: (clearly offended) I am familiar...
I forget which French intellectual said that anyone who wants to understand America needs to understand baseball. This is probably an exaggeration, but while staring at this box score and.
Since I was accused by a couple people in the last presidential power thread of creating a strawman, I should note that David Sirota and especially Drew Westen have provided.
Yesterday's generally excellent game provides a good illustration of rule changes baseball very much needs: I would write more about the drama, except that the series for all intents and purposes didn't mean anything, with the only thing at stake a nearly-meaningless nominal division championship. ...
Obviously, the American political system is in large measure dysfunctional, but this doesn't change the fact that the S&P downgrade was a complete farce from an organization with less than.
As Erik notes, Mark Hatfield has passed. He was, from our current point of view, a remarkably odd political figure. I remember this quite well: Senator Mark O. Hatfield of.
Mark Hatfield has died at the age of 89. Remember when the Republican Party wasn't completely crazy? I know, it seems like a mythical past to me too, one replete with unicorns and minotaurs. But it was a real time. I even remember it. It...
At Alternet, Tara Lohan has a really interesting long interview with radical environmentalists Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Aric McBay, who have published a new book where they call for.
Obama has called for a (pretty low-level) jobs program that would essentially provide preferential hiring for veterans through tax breaks for businesses. Normally I am opposed to the fetishization of.