In this podcast, Steven Attewell, author of the indispensable Race for the Iron Throne blog and general internet celebrity, joins Yours Truly for a rousing discussing of "Valar Dohaeris" that was in no way ruined by me posting everything I had to say about the...
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I suppose the mainstream media infatuation with Crazy Uncle Liberty's son, the Neoconfederate Ophthalmologist, was inevitable.
Will be in Toronto conferencing later this week. I know nothing about this place except for a) the Blue Jays and b) I get to pay with stuff in some.
(It goes without saying that this is one those visual rhetoric posts.) The title of the third season premier of Game of Thrones comes from the traditional Braavosi exchange: one meets the chipper greeting, "Valar Morghulis [all men must die]" with the equally cheery response,...
Free agency in baseball is basically dead, at least for high-end players. Players' current teams are buying the best players out of free agency with long-term deals that will keep.
I am really skeptical of guestworker programs doing anything other than providing a structure to exploit vulnerable workers. The history of guestworker programs is basically terrible and the present isn't.
It will allow things that are already possible to be possible: Sue Everhart, chairwoman of the Georgia Republican Party, told the Marietta Daily Journal in a story published Saturday that once gay nuptials are legally permitted, there will be nothing to stop a straight person...
Adam Kotsko writes like ain't nobody's in a business: Yet it occurs to me: is anything inherently a business? We normally think of a bakery as a business, for example,.
Once again it must be asked, is our journalists learning?
Well, that was horrible to see. But at least the players risking their bodies while making tons of money for schools, networks, and various administrators are permitted to be compensated fairly, at whatever the market will bear! ...credit where credit is due: Sirota is right...
Until I thought about what it looks like in their heads: I'd be upset too if I expected something Christian like Easter eggs and saw that instead. UPDATE: Turns out.
As regulars will know, inner circle Hall of Fame commenter Howard and I have a running charity bet in which I wager that the Yankees will win the division and.