This video has been making lots of people laugh and/or seccuss their heads against the wall on the science and med blogs this week. It's almost too painful to watch -- the jaw-dropping butchery of physics is only the beginning -- but there's so much great...
The premise of Curb Your Enthusiasm, according to James Kaplan's 2004 profile of Larrry David in The New Yorker, is that:David's character is a semi-retired sitcom mogul who ambles through.
Could you please stop with the idiotic baserunning?Love,Scott
And here we are. I'm sitting in a cave with sixteen other people, because our "all terrain portable shelter" blew away in the last windstorm. Who could have guessed that this planet would have areas that had both pleasant summers AND cold, nasty winters? It's not...
At the horror show that is death penalty jurisprudence in the state of Texas has been getting some attention around here, I remember that I have been remiss in not.
Via Chet, this is kind of eery/scary.
Tim Marhcman has an excellent piece noting that the superficially numbers-savvy Joe Girardi is actually a much worse percentage manager than the folksy-seeming Charlie Manuel:The quintessential Girardi ploy came last Friday, in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series. The Yankees were down one run...
"With Me As Your Law...Talkin' Guy, Your Railroad to the Death Chamber is Ready!"It's bad enough that various state officials conspired to murder Cameron Todd Willingham based on worthless junk.
According to this story, that's what happened. The most disturbing aspect of Deadspin's account is that apparently the NBA didn't claim that particular statements in the book were inaccurate. (Indeed.
Because the world needs more parodies of Victor Davis Hanson:Morituri te salutantThe Victory Column and vero possumus megalomania of 2008 have now led to the deification of Obama as our new Caesar, man of letters (who, in the ancient tradition, enslaved a million in Gaul), and...
I think whatever of my colleagues characterized this article on Twitter as "World Series that don't include the Yankees invariably suck" was actually being unfair (although it would be an.
Whatever the limitations of his baseball knowledge, Matt is in fact correct about Buzz Bissinger's latest silly anti-Billy Beane screed. The biggest problem with Bissinger's rant is that he doesn't.