You have to wonder what the Islanders are trying to accomplish in taking away Chris Botta's credentials. I maybe can see a Machiavellian logic in blackballing non-propagandistic reporters if you're a really popular franchise, although I doubt that it's actually productive. But when you're the...
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So I've been complaining a bit lately about Facebook's "See Friendship" feature. Turns out it's even worse than I originally thought. See, it's not just any two of your friends.
Three days ago, LGM suggested that playing a football game with a (padded!!) brick wall on the end line of the field might be a dubious idea. Apparently this stunning.
Shorter Mike Pence: Bush's policy of cutting taxes for the upper classes to promote economic growth didn't work, so for the sake of economic growth they must be permanently extended. Well, that first part is certainly right. And Hoyer seems to be standing firm, amazingly...
...one more reason to abolish the Air Force. [/Farley]
In a major upset, the Dems seem to have actually decided to pursue the strategy on tax cuts that was always blindingly obvious.
Not everyone is happy with the good news Paul mentions below. Take not-blogger Murray Chass, who in a blog post online column claims that the dumb criterion that caused sportswriters of yore to determine that such durable immortals as LaMarr Hoyt and Steve Stone and...
Nowledge triumphs.
Here's some more embarrassingly reported tripe on the purported health dangers of cell phones, this time from The New York Times. Since its publication about a week ago (Nov. 13),.
Glenn Greenwald as usual does an excellent job summarizing the Orwellian proceedings surrounding the detention and trial of Ahmed Ghailani. One point that bears particular emphasis is that the government, or more precisely the Obama administration through its Department of Justice, made clear at the...
The conventional wisdom in the press today is that the conviction of Ahmed Ghailani on only one of 285 possible charges by a civilian court in New York will hobble.
If it only it had the rugged self-reliance of our red states, it would be fine.