The Madoff affair is interesting on a bunch of levels — psychologically, politically, and sociologically, among others. Something that ought to be looked into vigorously by the new administration is how one of the financial world’s most prominent people could run a scheme that produced such an extraordinary improbable result (15 straight years of significantly […]
Author: Paul Campos
This is the weirdest coaching switch I’ve ever seen: Auburn fires Tommy Tuberville, who prior to this year had gone 42-9 in the SEC over the previous four seasons, including a perfect record in
There are a bunch of ways to analyze this. One is to compare the most similar players to Sabathia at the same age. The most similar is Dave McNally, who at the same point in his career had 70 wins lef
As the U.S. economy melts down, as international tensions threaten to spiral out of control, as the sixth anniversary of the biggest foreign policy disaster in American history approaches, as the question of whether George W. Bush is the worst president in American history becomes about as interesting as the question of whether the 2008 […]
It’s being reported that Notre Dame is going to bring back Charlie Weis for a fifth season, despite the fact the team racked up the most losses in any two-season stretch in the 109-year history
I guess this kind of thing is what makes the world go around on some level. And so the Black Friday lines begin. The streets of Boulder are fairly tame and the majority of store-fronts are dark on Tha
Sandy Levinson, a professor of law and political science, has been arguing for several years now that academics pay way too much attention, relatively speaking, to the rights provisions of the Constitution, and not nearly enough to what he calls its hard-wired structural features. One reason this is so is obvious: the hard-wired features don’t […]
This is a very trivial issue, but on the other hand this is an eclectic blog. Why are so many high-profile sports broadcasters so incredibly bad? OK, I’m sure broadcasting a sports event, like j
Body liberation can start with a donut.Make it a jelly.
23-year-old Linda Ronstadt, accompanied by Bobby Darin on guitar. Darin would be dead three years later.
This story, indicating that the Obama administration is bailing on the idea even investigating whether criminal charges ought to be brought against Bush administration officials who committed war crim
Some of the comments made to Rob’s post on the devastating effects the U.S. drug war has on Mexico and other nations take the view that (simplifying somewhat) yes, “drugs” produce a