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...
Author: Paul Campos
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.
My friend Steve is an atmospheric scientist and a hardcore baseball fan. He's devised an ingenious simulation, in which he predicts the probable outcome of the remainder of a baseball season based on a method which involves using the Pythagorean records of teams to predict...
"Some" would have seen it as a Secret Terrorist Gesture, while more sober-minded chin-scratchers would have taken it as evidence that Obama is too much of a foreigner to understand.
. . . donate Adam Dunn to Arizona for a petrified starfish and two pre-owned copies of The Transformed Man.Dunn is a free agent in six weeks, so if the.
My guess would be . . . Munich, 1938!What do I win?BTW it would be difficult to top this phrase for some sort of Neo-Con Unselfconscious Irony Award: "Fanatics aren’t deterred by the disapproval of men of moderation or refinement."The funny thing is that the...
I was an Edwards supporter early on, so I find this particularly disturbing. In an ideal world I agree this would be a private affair in every sense, but did.
In the comments to the Hiroshima thread below, djw asks an excellent question, in response to justifications for dropping the bomb on Japan because doing so arguably saved many more.
Picasso's painting memorializes the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War that killed several hundred civilians. At the time the incident shocked the world. Eight years later, 70,000 people, the large majority women and children, were incinerated when a single bomb was...
After various rumors that he might sign with some sufficiently desperate team failed to pan out, it seems increasingly likely that Barry Bonds has played his last major league game..
I mean can it?Needless to say MoDo is long past praying for, but really:Despite Obama’s wooing, some women aren’t warming. As Carol Marin wrote in The Chicago Sun-Times, The Lanky.