New Year’s Eve is the most overrated of holidays. Nothing squelches a potential good time faster than the sense that one is obligated to have a good time, which is what New Year’s Eve feels like. This is an example of a more general phenomenon, which could be called Trying Too Hard, or TTH. TTH […]
Month: December 2012
Happy New Year! Stay safe! 2012 LGM in Numbers*: Posts: 2723 Comments: 163,243 Visits: 3,934,352 Unique Visitors: 803,173 Pageviews: 7,459,130 Top Ten Posts of the Year: The Two American Flags (Loomis
Happy, safe, holiday, etc. Seriously, no one wants your life to end up befitting a Roy Acuff song. That’s really never ended well for anyone.
Blatter is critical of the MLS. To wit: But don’t forget that soccer — as they call football there — is the most popular game in the youth. It’s not American football or baseball; it is soccer. But there is no very strong professional league. There have just the M.L.S. But they have not these […]
What Chait and Noah said about the deal that hopefully won’t happen. As always, it’s not that I’m opposed to any possible deal that makes concessions on tax rates, but I’m cert
It’s firing day in the NFL. Since Tebow’s tenure with the Jets will also soon be over, I can’t resist pointing out that Ryan is being criticizied for one of the few smart things a
It could have been a lot worse, which these days is pretty much all you can ask for.
… I don’t see the harm in adding more fictions to the hypotheticals. Given that the opposition’s evidence is the “millions” of home-invasions that’ve been thwarted
It’s like 1990s-vintage Clinton derangement. Generating a conspiracy theory from the Benghazi faux-scandal, a passel of wingers argued that Hillary Clinton was faking an illness. (Glenn Reyn
Abusing the keys to the blog a bit here, but I thought I’d appeal to the substantial collective knowledge of our readership. Another research project has piqued my interest in existing cases, historical and contemporary, in which particular groups (indigenous people, primarily) are granted international border crossing privileges by virtue of their membership in that […]
A couple people have asked about my reaction to Naomi Wolf’s latest assertions that crackdowns on Occupy were driven by the federal government. My reaction remains the same — i.e. she̵
Serwer: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is meant to allow the government to spy on suspected foreign agents abroad, but it is written in such a manner that it allows the government to snoop