Les Paul, R.I.P.
Author: Scott Lemieux
A new picture based on the Diary of Anne Frank will be written and directed by David Mamet. Roy gets a set of steak knives for getting us an advance.
Shorter Cintra Wilson: "They let non-rich people and fat people (by which I mean people who aren't a more morally appropriate size 2, like myself -- have I mentioned that.
A good list, although I think the Beltre contract was OK (as Posnanski half-concedes.) Two apercus I particularly endorse:"Here鈥檚 my thing about J.P. Ricciardi, the thing that really baffles the heck out of me: How can someone keep giving out contracts THIS BAD and keep...
I think this is definitely correct. I didn't understand why Obama was appointing viable Senate candidates at the time, and it looks even worse in retrospect. (Although the subsequent analysis.
It has to be some sort of landmark in American political discourse when both Lee Siegel and Camille Paglia weigh in on American health care policy. Total combined knowledge of.
It's not suprising how the interests line up, but here's a good account of why New York's irrational policy of banning wine sales in grocery stores remains in place.
This could be a chance for some profitable InTrade arbitrage.Although, in fairness, he has a more plausible path to the nomination that Guiliani did...
Even though I generally make an annual sojurn to Vegas with some co-bloggers without current or imminent parental responsibilities, I've never tried In-N-Out. But an unscientific survey of chefs --.
I have to agree with David Bernstein when it comes to the assertion that Sotomayor "will soon take on one of the most demanding jobs in the land." Granting that the job has some high-level intellectual demands and pressures, I would say that in fact...
Ed Kilgore notes a new Gallup poll making clear what was always overwhelmingly likely -- the widely-trumpeted May Gallup poll showing a significant "pro-life" majority was an outlier. When public.
Horrible stuff:The bountiful harvest of California strawberries, melons, grapes, peaches and nectarines overflows the nation's summer tables. But that luscious crop mostly emerges thanks to farm workers who labor in.