As many of you may know, the University of Kentucky's colors are blue and white. As you can see, the women's basketball team at UK wears blue and white: The women's uniform in the UK cheerleading squad is also blue and white: And yet, when...
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Query: Could Johnny Damon be the first 3000 hit player to miss the Hall of Fame? Of course, this excludes the obvious problems (Rose, Palmeiro), and assumes that Biggio will.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck
If you want a good example of the extent to which we live in an unjust world, comapre the sad fate of the first black woman to be elected to the South Carolina legislature with that of Kindly Ol' Strom Thurmond.
This story about reading dissents from the bench reminds me why Pamela Karlan belongs (with Diane Wood) at or near the very top of Obama's Supreme Court shortlist: Consider Bowers.
Hat Tip to CNNBC.
JEM fighters will put down their arms for the opportunity to join the Sudanese army at 500 euros a head. Perhaps this will slow conflict-related violence in the region, perhaps not. Human Security Report data from earlier this year reminded us that most of the...
Stephen Green asserts that to find a president criticizing the Supreme Court you have to go back to Old Hickory. (And his quote is actually apocryphal, although since it's "fake.
This illustrates one of the massive inefficiencies that gets built into our massively inefficient health care system by the invidious relationship that can develop between the interests of Big Pharma.
Who says you can't empirically observe the effect of BSG on actual politics? Former Congressman Eric Massa to a male aide: "What I really ought to be doing is fracking you." See? See? (Only the series does not appear to have influenced "political perceptions" of...
For whatever reason, the filibuster has a romantic appeal to people who should know better, and you often hear from those who dislike the current rules that changing the rules.
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