I wrote recently that Sideways was the best reviewed film of the year. I'm not sure if this is true any longer; the reviews from top critics of Million Dollar Baby have been remarkably good. (Sideways still has a slightly higher Metacritic score, but eyeballing the reviews and year-end lists of...
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I've spent the last several days with my family, away from computers and email. This has given me time to ponder various trivialities far more than I, or anyone, should..
from your friends at Lawyers, Guns & Money. Have fun, be safe, and never forget that the Yankees suck ass.
Today's clue is that I'm sitting at home in my pajamas watching oral arguments before Washington State Surpreme court. I just learned about the fascinating way in which court of appeals judges are selected to pinch-hit for on SC, which seems unnecessarily complicated. The issue...
As most D.C. cynics predicted, it appears as if a stadium financing deal is in place, pending a council vote. But, at least, it will be done with half private financing,.
The Seattle PI has a relatively unremarkable story on the economic fallout of the recent oil spill in The Aleutians today. Short-term influx of work, dollars, and filled hotel rooms, tempered.
Many of us political theory types have a particular interest in the facts and fictions of the founding moments of political societies, especially under extreme and unusual circumstances. Lost, ABC's stellar new mildly soap-operatic stranded-on-a-tropical-island drama (I recently finally got around to watching the episodes so...
While Jim Henley and Rob have already dealt with this, this Tom Boswell article linked to be Henley about the DC stadium deal is such a definitive example of the mendacity of.
is on full display in this ridiculous piece in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. What is it with Classics professors? He starts off with a little whining about he was given a.
My question for Chris Vance: If King County was hell-bent on "stealing" this election, why didn't they do it sooner? Why did they reject a higher percentage of ballots than the rest of the state? If those 561 improperly rejected votes go to Gregoire by...
Tim Noah directs you to the worst gift idea ever. By the way, shouldn't the signature decrease the value in this case?
Bob Novak on the Capital Gang, discussing the Rumsfeld dust-up: Look, soldiers always complain. That's just what they do--it's a way of life for them.