If you guessed "another folk singer" you are incorrect. James Shadid, a federal judge in Peoria, IL has a dream: He wants to start a new law school at Bradley University (h/t LSTB). Now the state of Illinois already has nine law schools, and indeed...
Author: Paul Campos
George McGovern has died. That McGovern suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Richard Nixon is as good example as any of everything that has gone wrong with politics.
Having the best pitcher and hitter in baseball might have had something to do with it. In all semi-seriousness, the ARod situation is going to be extremely awkward going forward..
Shorter literal William Kristol: When The Decline and Fall of the American Republic is written centuries hence, the date October 17, 2012, will occupy a prominent place in the narrative. On this day, a playoff game between the Yankees and the Tigers in Detroit was...
Master of the Universe emeritus Vikram Pandit has gotten bounced from his perch as CEO of Citigroup, but, unlike most unemployed Americans, he won’t have to worry about how to.
Here's LGM's official ALDS and NLDS previews: American League: Baltimore v. New York: Much as we would like to see this series pushed to five games, the Cinderella story ends.
This Andrew Sullivan post takes the view that the first debate has come close to handing the election to Romney. That claim -- based largely as far as I can tell on the results of one three-day post-debate tracking poll -- seems like a huge...
I have a Salon piece inspired by Erik's Duke-bashing post.
Has, somewhat surprisingly, not yet been addressed by LGM. I have a couple of biases to declare, namely that I root for the Tigers and against stupidity, which naturally leaves.
“Your great-grandfather was a former governor of this state,” she said. “Your grandfather was a prosperous land-owner. Your grandmother was a Godhigh.” “Will you look around you,” he said tensely, “and see where you are now?” and he swept his arm jerkily out to indicate...
This post is going to sound like under-theorized musing not as some sort of rhetorical device, but because I'm sincerely puzzled by the following question (triggered, obviously, by the last.
Bringing it all back home to Green Bay.