Congratulations to the Oregon State Beavers on winning the College World Series! I know that as a Duck I should never take a pro-Beav stance, but the University of Oregon lacks a baseball team, and in truth most of the bile and darkness in the...
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Now that I'm finally back from becoming even more Frenchified, it's time to thank my outstanding guest-bloggers, Iocaste and Lizardbreath. And to add one more round of kudos to SteveG.
Soon, The New Republic will collapse in on itself, smothered by its own sense of self-importance. We need to organize a rescue operation to get the book review section out.
When Ann Althouse said that Alito was a different kind of conservative than Scalia, she was in a sense right, although in a rather different way that she intended. From a left-liberal (if not left-communitarian) perspective, Alito is clearly worse. Scalia does have a libertarian...
Joe Sheehan on baseball punditry:When the situation was reversed, when the best team in baseball was, at least on the surface, a smallball team, the revolution was upon us. Now.
Some big Supreme Court cases today. I'm going to leave discussion of the Vermont campaign finance decision until tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm going to take a page from LizardBreath.
After Iraq and massive deficit busting upper-class tax cuts and Ashcroft and Abu Gonzales and Strip Search Sammy etc. etc. etc. it's very difficult to continue to defend the narcissistic third-party candidacy that put Bush in the White House in 2000, and to continue to...
Hilzoy identifies the crucial problem with Lieberman, and identifies another classic example of Holy Joe putting himself above the party that I had forgotten:Prizing genuine pragmatism, reasonableness, and statesmanship is.
Chessboxing:Two competitors face each other in 11 alternating rounds, six of chess, five of boxing. A bout begins with chess, which is played on a board placed directly in the.
Yeah, I'm pretty much with Neil; cheering for a Green candidate to sabotage Cantwell is one of the dumbest things to come down the pike since... oh, well, since some people thought voting for Ralph Nader would actually produce a progressive outcome in this country....
In Washington D.C. now, for the first time in my life. Some people seem shocked to find that one could get a Ph.D. in political science without stepping foot in.
I've wondered about this, too. In Seven Ages of Paris, Alistair Horne suggested that Baron Hausmann did a grave aesthetic disservice to Paris in the 1850s. But, as Mr. Trend.