Rough loss for the U.S., but there's reason for consolation: America has almost as many goals against Canada as Latvia and Norway did.— mc79hockey (@mc79hockey) February 21, 2014 Seriously, even though Canada outplayed the U.S. by a much greater margin than the score suggests, one elimination...
Building on the model of professional sports, where immensely profitable owners squeeze the wages, reduce the benefits, and undermine the pensions of everyday workers because they can, the Pac-12, flush.
Once again, figure skating is a terrible sport.
Frenemies battle round 2 today; should be at least as much fun. How did the last meeting come out? I'm having trouble remembering... There are two bad ways of handicapping today's game. One would be to look at raw goal totals and Canada only beating Latvia...
I highly recommend Estelle Sommeiller and Mark Price's report on growing income inequality by state since 1979. Some of their findings from the executive summary (you can download the PDF.
Particularly given that it's already been a subject a broader discussion this year, I should acknowledge that I was wrong to say that "Iraq was just as much a fiasco".
Oh, hai. Remember thing I said about David French? About how he had written the dumbest thing on the Internet? I take it back. Vox Day now holds the honor. I picture Vox Day crying hysterically as he explains why he is not allowing girls into...
This is a prologue to some further thoughts and observations in the coming days/weeks. Consider the accuracy of the following two statements, in light of this and this: 1) The.
In the wake of the George Zimmerman acquittal, Lisa Wade discussed some data which contrasted justifiable homicide rates in stand-your-ground states to those without. Not terribly shocking, "In SYG states, 13.6%.
A bit more on airpower, seapower, and strategic theorizing: The ongoing debates over airpower theory, seapower theory, and strategic theory more generally have glided over three issues: the division between domains of action, the division between military and civilian contributions, and the increasingly transnational nature of the modern strategic...
Are televised college sports news programs or commercial events? The NCAA's legal theory, as put forth at the summary judgment hearing in the O'Bannon class action suit today, is that.
If constitutional monarchy is good for anything, surely Marie-Philip Poulin will have been declared the Prime Minister of Canada before the end of the evening. Also, for Americans inclined to.