I'm not sure if the new Temperance League has cleared this record for public consumption, but congrats to Tom Glavine. It's a little bittersweet, given how many of those involved throttling the Expos, but it's always a remarkable accomplishment.Speaking of the new TL, one of...
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Brad Plumer has a discussion of requirements that welfare recipients in San Diego submit to warrantless searches of their homes. This kind of policy presents one of the thorniest problems.
There are some obvious problems with, as part of the silly "Porkbusters" project, blaming "pork" for the collapse of the bridge in Minneapolis. But the most obvious is that providing.
Although Matt is wrong about baseball he is right about Bonds. I've avoided writing about steroids because my position is "who gives a shit?" Even leaving aside the fact that nobody knows how much they improve performance in a complex, multi-dimensional sport in which skill...
Above: Harry Reid (D-NV, #5)I can't add much (aside from an obscure reference to my favorite non-baseball team evah to cheer me up a little) to to the analysis of.
More evidence in the British Medical Journal.
I must admit, seeing the camera pan around Wrigley Field before the game made me wish I was at Yearly Kos (well, I wouldn't have been at Yearly Kos now but you can see what I'm driving at.) Especially given the possibility (now unlikely to...
Ah, I believe we would have here our wanker of the day. I also note that 1)the money made by hedge fund managers is clearly compensation not capital gains, and.
Following up on Bean's excellent analysis from earlier this week, Lindsay notes the shifts in language in the way the story was covered, and brings us to the obvious bottom.
Diane Feinstein, who cast the key vote to let arch-reactionary Leslie Southwick out of the Judiciary Committee. Apparently, she saw the Roberts Court's first term, liked what she saw, and figured that the federal courts could use yet another neoconfederate judge. This would be one...
Showing how much my instincts can be trusted, the "Scott Thomas" story turns out to have been solid, with the only demonstrable error a trivial detail irrelevant to the main.
This column by Anna Quindlen has generated some discussion among the "pro-lifers" at The Corner. As I've been through in detail before, the idea that abortion can be a serious.