As a complement to Pierce, enjoy Emma Span on the witless sexism in Bill Simmons's bestseller.
In America, jokes write themselves!
We can all rest easy now, because in the Cricket, normal business has resumed. An analysis of player performance through the second test at Adelaide can be found here. Dated,.
Megan McArdle apparently believes she has liberals who support broad federal powers dead to rights: 1) Can Congress enact a $50,000 tax on second term abortions? 2) Can Congress enact a $50,000 tax increase, which is then rebated to anyone who does not have an abortion?...
"Life seems great when you have it your way but better when you don’t." I had to ask my son what he meant by that when I saw it written.
An ideologue of information freedom? A capitalist? Something else? Now that he's been named Time Person of the Year (Time readers' poll and the preferences of the Fuhrer notwithstanding), these.
Now this is very interesting: US concern about the future of Trident had first surfaced a few weeks earlier, before Brown's speech to the UN, when British media carried unattributed political briefings which suggested the Labour government intended to defer crucial Trident replacement decisions. The nuclear-armed...
Australia 268 all out; England 29 for 0. Ashes Third Test, Perth, Day 1 of 5. England lead the series 1-0. It's not cricket that I don't understand; it's this.
When dealing with the contemporary United States Senate, I would have thought not. And yet the stand-alone DADT repeal whose chances for passage I had (with good reason, I think).
And the European Court of Justice delivers! Actually, this is only very modestly good news -- no Roe or Morgentaler -- as Ireland's draconian ban on most abortions will remain in place. The ECJ has held, however, that the Irish legislature must act to ensure that...
R.I.P. As you would expect, another great with a Cleveland connection has a terrific remembrance.
This is according to a new BBC news survey. But note that the survey measures the salience of "corruption" relative to other global social problems (only "poverty" is rated more.