Alex Rodriguez has decided to play for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic.Wow.I'm probably missing someone, but this is what the Dominican team looks like to me:DH: David Ortiz1B: Albert Pujols2B: Alfonso SorianoSS: Miguel Tejada3B: Alex RodriguezRF: Moises AlouCF: Vladimir GuerreroLF: Manny RamirezC:...
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Robert Pape has an article on suicide bombing in the new APSR (What? Something interesting in the APSR? The hell you say!). Kevin Drum publishes an extract of an interview.
This list of overrated songs certainly has some problematic entries. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" doesn't belong, not because it's good because as far as I know it has no.
An excellent post by Lindsay, who skewers the ressentiment of self-described "nice guys" very effectively. It was fascinating to read the comments of various threads and see the durability of the self-serving "nice guys can't get laid" myth. (Part of the problem may stem from...
Matt is, of course, completely right here:Why would that be? Let's say Bush puts up Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown. In response, all 7 Democrats commit to voting no..
It should come as news to none of our readers that the Bush administration consistently demonstrates exceedingly poor policy judgment to complement their mendacity and skewed priorities on a myriad.
Nathan Newman draws the right lesson from Toyota deciding to locate a new plant in Canada rather than the Republican utopias of Alabama and Mississippi:Partly this is due to the embarrassing fact that Toyota thinks the education system in those US states is so substance's....
Roxanne notes that the Cleveland Plain Dealer is declining to publish a story based on leaked documents. As iocaste points out, however, the paper is clearly mistaken on the law,.
Julie and Publius agree that far from being a desirable moderate, Gonzales is an unacceptable nominee, and liberals should absolutely not define him as a moderate or compromise candidate. Kos'.
The federal law banning d&x abortions (and, given its vague language, who knows what else) is now 0-for-4 in the federal courts. (Via How Appealing.) While this is a straightforward decision under existing law, we know who the swing vote was. This case will be...
Heh. Indeed! Of course, truth can be as reprehensible as fiction...
The play-by-play man of the world's most evil organization just asked his color man, David Justice, "what approach would you, as a left-handed hitter, take with Arthur Rhodes?" Justice mumbled.