I mostly ignored the Superb Owl this weekend, but I did manage to catch some of the commercial breaks. One ad that stood out was the Volkswagon spot, which featured engineers sprouting wings whenever a VW would roll over to the 100,000 mile mark. A...
Month: February 2014
For your amusement, some 2012 draft analysis: No. 1: Seattle Seahawks After one of the worst picks in the first round I can ever remember, the Seattle Seahawks didn't draft any positions.
This could come in handy whenever the apogee of a deadline meets the perigee of a hangover. Quotes and statistics can easily fill this out to 750 words. The [death,.
The Wall Street Journal doubles down on the claim that criticizing the 1% could lead to the next Holocaust.
For those who have been asking about a Kindle edition of Grounded, pre-order is now available. Note, however, that the University Press of Kentucky has an e-book loyalty program, meaning.
Well this is certainly interesting: Reproductive health care advocate Sandra Fluke has filed papers to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in California. According to the Washington Post, the.
CT has a petition. The position it takes is clearly correct: Academics and commentators—including Crooked Timber bloggers—disagree over the American Studies Association’s decision to endorse an academic boycott of Israel. There should be far less disagreement over two bills recently proposed in New York’s and...
Are congressional Republicans unable to distinguish between a defense lawyer and her client? Are they just pretending not to understand the adversarial system because it sounds better than "we don't.
I hear there was a sportball game this weekend. Some birds won the game, some horses lost. (more…)
On Saturday night, I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to see the amazing guitarist Marc Ribot play. The show was filmed, albeit with a stationary camera. Here is the first 19 minutes of the first song (the rest of the show is also...
Christ, is Ben Shapiro an asshole.
The French Revolution Digital Archive is now online, providing us access to 14,000 digitized images from the time. Good stuff for all you who teach this stuff and for those.