The Poor Man on Imperial Hubris: The longest Tacitus post ever. Half right, half wrong, but mostly concerned with stridently asserting the author's own moral superiority to anyone at a higher pay grade. Makes a completely convincing case that Osama bin Laden's personal abilities and charisma...
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Game 5 of the ALCS had an 18.4 rating. This was higher than NBC and ABC combined--and ABC was showing Monday night football. Not something that's gotten much attention. Whenever.
How to put Schilling, Game 6, into historical perspective? The referents aren't Koufax in 1965, Beckett last year, like that; he was outstanding, but it's not about dominance per se..
I missed the bad calls last night, but let's all give props to the crew for two gutsy and absolutely correct reversals. I also give grudging respect for the canny fan who took a HR in the gut to tr to make it look like...
Since I was (justly) hard on the umpires yesterday, I must note that they got their two egregious blown calls tonight correct, which is all you can ask. Memo to.
I had intended to blog about Jim DeMint's ridiculous dodging of questions about the implications of his abortion position on Press the Meat, but fortunately Atrios nails it. He brings up another.
Yessssssssssssh. Particularly appropriate given the previous two atbats, which culminated in an awful third strike call, and then a blown call on a stolen base that even the late Ray Charles could have made. (I mean, when the guy doesn't come close to tagging him, and...
Tucker should know that he's not going to win this one. . . ``I thought that he looked ridiculous,'' Carlson said in an interview Monday, ``and I think the tape makes.
I just received an email from a reader and friend who has a PhD in bioengineering, focusing on biowarfare defense. She's thinking about the flu vaccine issue. Frankly, I have.
In perusing recent excellent posts at Alas, A Blog and Body and Soul on abortion rates and presidencies, a thought occurs to me. If we were to take the view that abortion is akin to murder, and the refusal to recognize it as such is a form...
This is a great trick. I wonder how often it happens? The really strange thing, though, is that these arguments really aren't any less plausible than the ones generally offered.
Michael Berube has a good review of the strangely gripping piece of science fiction published by the New York Times today. I'm not really a big fan of the genre, but I.