Many of you will have seen Chris Kluwe’s account of what happened after he started advocating for same-sex marriage rights: Throughout the months of September, October, and November, Minnesota Vikings special-teams coordinator Mike Priefer would use homophobic language in my presence. He had not done so during minicamps or fall camp that year, nor had […]
Month: January 2014
Blogger Murray Chass wrote two awful blog posts, combining anti-PED hysteria and proud ignorance about the quality of baseball players. Lazy arguments about PEDs, alas, are pretty common. But this kin
A sweet and uplifting message from the Cold War for your Sunday morning.
I actually wish Jazayerli hadn’t been so prescient. My final comment I will defer to Michael David Smith: Andy Reid is to clock management as Trent Richardson is to running the football. — Michael David Smith (@MichaelDavSmith) January 5, 2014 That use of a timeout out of the two-minute warning had to be the most […]
COLTS (-1 1/2) over Chiefs A tough one to call — with Houston coming back but not clearly healthy, it’s hard to know how good the Chiefs defense really is. It’s a crucial point, si
It ain’t easy defending a column as bad as David Brooks’s yesterday. Reihan Salam tries, and his entry is squarely in that odd category of contrarianism, “if we imagine the column be
I purchased “The Unforgettable Photograph” by George Lange for my father-in-law for Christmas, hoping I’d get a chance to sneak a peek inside. I did more than sneak a peek–I got lost in it. (Well, as much as I could when I’m in a house full of people and I’ve got an impish toddler to […]
I may have enjoyed writing this piece too much, for obvious reasons. But it also works as a nice excuse to rejoin the LG&M community. I mean, if you don’t love me for Who-related scientific
I hate to waste more time on this, but Charles makes a point about both Brooks and Marcus that desperately needs to be made: Laws against marijuana certainly have molded our culture, especially profou
The David Brooks column about maybe notsomuch don’t make a habit of it ok maybe once a week IF you’re an upper-middle-class white guy pot-smoking is a treasure that makes me want to frolic uninhibitedly. But the Gary Greenberg response to his column makes me want to huff some Krylon Posh Pink Glitter Blast and […]
As promised/threatened yesterday, my longer piece on why it’s both wrong and pernicious to argue that the ACA was based on a Republican proposal. A couple additional points: Although I left the
Perhaps the blackest mark on the Obama Administration has been the significantly harsher enforcement of American immigration law and the subsequent deportation of people, breaking up families. Twelve-