Make sure to catch a special Saturday Howler, as Somerby catches Maureen Dowd dead to rights making up the "Who among us doesn't like NASCAR?" Kerry "quote", which needless to say was flogged over and over again in the Times. (It's almost as bad a having claimed...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Ichiro! Very classy all the way. Did it in his first 2 ABs, Randy Newman's soundtrack from The Natural playing, George Sisler's daughter in attendance. Cool.
One of Yglesias's commenters nails it: Bush was at times defensive, insecure and peevish. Sometimes he almost seemed to be defending his intelligence, as when he kept insisting "I know how.
I watched it on the first floor of the college, where NBC set up cameras to interview students, before and after. I felt as nervous as before a game 7 I was invested in. For those who missed the debate, here's the summary: Kerry: Detailed...
Well, the inevitable is now official. Since I'll be going to Shea to see their last game ever on Sunday, I'll post more about it then. I do wish to note.
According to Glenn Reynolds, citing an article in the NY Post, the 60 Minutes scandal has had the salutary effect of destroying Dan Rather's ratings. "No wonder Big Media folks aren't.
I simply can't urge you strongly enough to read the article in the most recent Vanity Fair about Florida 2000--it's just magnificent, clearly putting inside baseball from the court's clerks in the larger political context. Courtesy of the superb SCOTUS blog, you can (and must) read...
A brilliant post by Jeanne D'Arc about the staggeringly dishonest bait-and-switch being pulled by hawks who 1)strongly favor intervention in the Sudan, and 2)wish to remain hack Bush apologists. Very difficult.
Bob Harris on the terrorist threats that still threaten this great land. As long as Air Supply can cross borders with immunity, we might as well install bin Laden in.
For your Sunday afternoon amusement, see s.z.--who finds better wingnuttery than anyone--analyze Lisa Wechel's fascinating thoughts on sex ed. and the gays. Call me old-fashioned, but I would prefer finding out about sex at the schoolyard. At least if the alternative is having your parents rent...
As he prepares to break George Sisler's record, I thought I would celebrate by passing along a remarkable junk stat. Bill James developed a series of tests that attempted to.
The latest embarrassing hackwork of the Instarube reminds me of this gem from the Crooked Timber archives about the National Review, which has been flogging the Rather story to an even more remarkable.