I was going to write something about this, but . . . no. I've grown addicted to my monthly "paycheque". The quarter final brackets for the World Cup are . . . unbalanced. Look for yourself: Friday, 2 July Netherlands v Brazil 15:00 BST, 10:00...
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One the one hand, I agree with Rosen here, with the major caveat that "more substantive that the last three hearings" is a bar comparable to a major league team.
Althouse: Ever heard the phrase "get over yourself." I don't use it often but: Get over yourself. v. Althouse: I would be curious to see what was said about me.
See Serwer, Drum, and Greenwald on the sudden unwillingness of the elite media to call torture torture when Americans led by the Bush administration engaged in the relevant practices. Of course, if you follow wingnut logic to be be against torture even when Americans do...
Shorter Verbatim Jay Nordlinger: "I think many of my conservative colleagues are far too gingerly when it comes to liberal media bias. Far too timid, delicate, and forgiving." I can't.
I'll be mostly off the grid traveling for the next two and half weeks, and I want to thank LGM readers for your many suggestions as to what I should.
For the reasons cited by Barbara, this would-be Elena Kagan "scandal" about changed wording in an American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists position paper -- being promoted by the likes of world's-phoniest-"libertarian" Glenn Reynolds -- is a complete joke. There's no contradiction between the two...
The ritual of the Kagan hearings makes for a disgusting spectacle, but hey, Bismark, sausage, whatever.
Jeffrey Goldberg is evidently insisting -- with the dubious aid of Eli Lake and evidence to the contrary -- that Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda once had a "potentially meaningful relationship.".
Actually, that's not true. Indeed, I should emphasize that this is not an anti-soccer post; it is an "anti-using egregious cherry-picking to exaggerate the popularity of soccer as a spectator sport in the United States" post. Not only because the claims are empirically erroneous, but...
The Montreal Jazz Festival. Also, this is more about "French" than "Canadian," but sweetbreads are awesome. For Upstate New Yorkers, I especially recommend the Egyptian-style ones prepared here. (Nancy's post.
One difference between England and the USA when it comes to their respective soccer sides is that whenever England crash out of a tournament instead of winning it (the latter.