2 PM Monday is when the GOP convention is scheduled to be kicking off, so this might possibly be taken as evidence that Mother Nature has a mordant sense of humor.
Author: Paul Campos
. . . when you're old enough to repay, but young enough to sell?I gather Alex Rodriguez was booed mercilessly last night for single-handedly destroying the Yanqui season. NYY seems.
Following up on Rob's post, if a public high school biology teacher teaches his or her students that there is no evidence for the existence of God (or, in what.
. . . what was that?
Radley Balko points out that Biden's voting record on drug issues in particular and civil liberties in general is quite bad. (Edit: As a couple of commentators have noted, Biden's.
I haven't developed any strong feelings about Obama's VP choice, but I sort of like this guy's style.It would have been better if he had pointed out McCain's idea of.
One way of sorting out peoples' politics of law is to ask them if they find Harry Blackmun's opinion for the Court in Roe v. Wade or Flood v. Kuhn more jurisprudentially offensive. (Flood held that, in order to avoid reversing a half-century-old precedent, baseball's...
One of the strangest aspects of the moral panic over fat in our culture is the bizarre concept that having a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is "normal." It certainly.
Cheap Abe Simpson humor aside, one issue that the media seem to be treating with extreme delicacy so far is McCain's age. It of course is a legitimate concern, given.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a presidential candidate's list of top ten favorite songs, published in a magazine aimed at self-identified young urban hipsters, will be an essentially disingenuous document, with the putative preferences having been selected by a campaign subcomittee assigned the...
But the front page of the NY Times sure looks like Chapter One of a Tom Clancy novel right now.It's just that under the present circumstances the idea of this.
I recently saw Eric Steel's 2006 documentary film The Bridge, about people who commit suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Steel got permission from local authorities to set.