I have to admit it--I like Ken Burns's Baseball. Sure, you could get to the 7th tape without being told that St. Louis even has a team. Yeah, it's pervaded by Whig history and PBS middlebrow nostalgia until it ends with a dreary rant about what'swrongwithmodernsports....
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Those who would enjoy watching the Christians against the lions so long as the lions are liberals can hear Paul Krugman debate Hair Club For Growth President Stephen Moore here.
For those waiting for the mask to fall completely away from fake libertarianism (i.e. foaming-mouth reactionaries who use token support for choice and gay rights as a way to put.
I understand the impulse to be uncomfortable with Edwards and Kerry highlighting Mary Cheney’s sexual orientation. As discussed in comments to Scott’s post below, it stems from the notion that they are intentionally reminding the worst of the bigots that the GOP ticket doesn’t really share...
If it weren't for Rob's constant reminders about the insipid Bird Dog at Tacitus, I probably would have stopped going over there at all. I was interested in tracking down.
In a story confirming the fact that Bush's invocation of Dred Scott was code for Roe v. Wade, Kevin Drum excerpts a remarkable statement made by one Rev. Louis Sheldon: When he.
RED SOX/YANKEES Any evaluation has to start with the fact that the BoSox outscored the Yankees by 50 runs, and allowed about 40 less. In other words, Boston is a significantly better team, and the Yankees' division win was a fluke. In addition, the Red...
A great point here by Michael Berube. While I understand that acknowledging the deeply-felt moral sense of people who oppose some abortions procured by the wrong kind of pe...er, "pro-lifers" is.
Julia at Sisyphus Shrugged nails it. Really, the Times should have suggested that the book would have been better with another year or twenty of research. But, then, and op-ed page.
I mentioned recently that to call Antonin Scalia a "formalist" is too give him too much credit. Now, in fairness, if you evaluate these things on a continuum he could be seen as relatively "formalist" in comparison with the typical Supreme Court justice. (And, contrary...
Just to make a last quick point, I think this post at the (superb) Counterspin Central represents a fairly common misperception about the extent of Dred Scott's holding. Obviously, if the Court.
A former student actually paid attention to one of my 10 minute diversion/rants on the use of the term "identity politics." I know because she kindly sent me a link.