In the comments to a post about some ev-psych wankery at the Freakonomics blog, Belle Waring has uncovered someone taking "Nice Guy" self-pity to quite remarkable depths. A taste (and doesn't his personality seem wonderful):Any good looking guy knows that women favor ugly men. It...
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In light of today's "closing the barn door after thieves have stolen your livestock, burned down the barn, killed your family, and absconded with a trillion dollars" revelations by the.
Ugh:The idea is that when they break up the drug ring, the dealers forfeit the suitcases full of money found in their closet next to the kilo of coke. The.
Martha Nussbaum's review of Harvey Mansfield's Manliness is the most devastating critique of the philosophical pretensions of a Strauss disciple since...Nussbaum's evisceration of The Closing of the American Mind. (I'm not sure if the review is available to nonsubscribers; generous excerpts are available here.) While...
A few points on Boston Massacre II: The Red Sox made two crucial moves that 1)I heartily supported at the time, and 2)have, in retrospect, turned out to be bad-to-disastrous..
In his review of an interesting-looking new LBJ biography, Alan Brinkley writes:Woods challenges as well a critical element of Caro’s extraordinary portrait of Texas politics in the second volume of.
Shorter various blogospheric wingnuts: the government's appalling lack of racism gives people no recourse but to take racism into their own hands....UDPATE: via Roy, I see that Glenn Reynolds concurs that the racist harassment of the passengers is explained by "excessive political correctness on the...
Admittedly, I can't oppose to making fun of Slappy Rodriguez for hitting into yet another inning-ending double play with Beckett in the ropes. It should not be forgotten, however, that.
It must be said that Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey is--as has been widely noted--a real find, the most hilariously oblivious libertarian crank to emerge in quite some time. (Amber Pawlik,.
Roxanne directs us to this excellent story in the L.A. Times about reporter Gary Webb. Webb , who committed suicide in 2004, wrote a series of stories about the CIA's connections with Nicaraguans who were dealing drugs north of the border. What followed his reporting...
Ah, nothing better than a consequential August doubleheader. Well--something could be better; the Red Sox could be starting a major league pitcher instead of Jason Johnson. I actually had a.
Longtime readers will know that I have my own disagreements with the solipsistic assumption of some members of the legal academy that the quality of the legal craftsmanship of judicial.