It has been duly noted that John Kerry recently received the influential and crucial endorsement of Joss Whedon (a moment of silence, please, for Jonah Goldberg, as his "conservatism is ascendent in pop culture" thesis is dealt yet another devastating blow). Abu Aardvark makes the case,...
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Alex "Chop Whiney" Rodriguez, subsequent to his straight-outta junior league T-Ball cheap shot in Game 6, wondered why you can bowl over a catcher but why "his ploy was illegal.".
After the first set of arguments in Brown v. Board of Education, the segregationist Chief Justice Fred Vinson (who voted for upholding Plessy) suddenly passed away. Justice Felix Frankfurter told one of.
Thank you for underlining the extent to which the Yankees' soulless corporate conformity sucks. Yours sincerely, Scott
I know Randy Marsh has a tight strike zone and everything, but belt-high pitches right down the middle of the plate do tend to be called strikes. Please return to.
I'm resigned to seeing the nose hairs of everybody in both dugouts between pitches, but when a pickoff throw is made would you consider switching away from the close-up angle.
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...
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.