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 by concerns about long-term damage, nothing too surprising. One passage did manage to cause my...
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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.
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 low passing grade for ignoring the instructions on an assignment and turning in anti-science propaganda...
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.
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.
Furthering my time-wasting in this here coffee shop, your easily distracted blogger has been leafing through a several-month old paper copy of The Chronicle of Higher Education left lying around. The.
One downside to my decision to replace my Clinton-era, Windows 98, 1/3 chance of crashing when opening a PDF laptop with a spiffy 2004 model is that I can now.
When I blasted the Gregoire campaign a few weeks ago for their incompetence, I was primarily thinking of the media and message elements of her campaign. In this week's Stranger, Sandeep Kaushik gives an even more damning account of her incompetence. In concentrating her efforts on...
Bob Somerby provides data for one of my hobbyhorses, the egregious underrating of the PAC-10 in college football. Admittedly, I would prefer that he made the point of comparison the.
In the wake of a reference ruling by the Canadian Supreme Court, Parliament will almost certainly pass federal legislation allowing same-sex marriage. Evidently, the news that Canada has far more rational.