Dave Niehaus, the broadcaster of the Seattle Mariners since their first game, died yesterday. Stories / tributes here, here, and here. I’ll add the usual narrative: for me, Niehaus was baseball. From their first season in 1977, at the age of nine, I was hooked. After I moved to Europe nearly ten years ago, I […]
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Pancreatic cancer — a disease I regard as proving either the indifference of the universe or the hostility of god — took him out. I can’t claim to have been a close follower of Pavar
Honestly, I haven’t had this much fun watching a blogger trainwreck since Khamenei supposedly went toe-up. This episode has an extra layer of appeal, in that the usual wingnut blogs have been jo
. . . She had a heart? I suppose there’s a good argument to be made that if Helmsley had been a man, her crimes wouldn’t have earned more than a year in the clink. Still, she was a noxious human being who abused her employees and cheated the Reagan administration out of millions dollars […]
Remarkably, Sonny Rollins’s sublime “St. Thomas” came up on my I-Tunes shuffle about 10 minutes before that I read that the incomparable drummer who played on the track had passed aw
Gameshow kingpin Merv Griffin is no more. An odd guy by any standard, Griffin was a right wing nut who introduced Nancy Reagan to his psychic. His very name, however, inspired one of the great moments
Post of the day goes to Dan Drezner: First Ingmar Bergmann dies. Now it’s Michelangelo Antonioni. Clearly, someone or something is killing Europe’s great film directors. Anyone seen Michael Bay recently? How about Brett Ratner?
I note with some surprise that we haven’t mentioned the passing of Ingmar Bergman or Bill Walsh. Both were geniuses in their own worlds. Rest in peace. . . . update from d: Erik Loomis has some
Ulrich Muehe, the Stasi agent in The Lives of Others, has passed away. I had no idea he was sick, but apparently he’s been suffering from stomach cancer. Rest in peace.
Early in the nineteenth century, the Durrani Empire, which had governed Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan since 1747, began to collapse. The Durrani Empire came about through an effort by Afghan tribesmen to throw off Persian rule, and Afghanistan became, more or less, the territory between Iran and Punjab. As the empire disintegrated, contending noble […]
I have always preferred the “one barber” option, given numerous opportunities to have my hair cut. When I arrived in Seattle in 1997, I found a barber, near campus, who charged high rates
Jim Clark, the thug who oversaw the racist gulag of Selma for more than a decade, went toe-up yesterday in an Alabama nursing home. Clark was best remembered for the nationally-televised police riot t