Too often, including in the comments at this blog, the idea that labor unions and environmentalists have irreconcilable goals goes unchallenged. But there is in fact significant common ground. Over the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Transit Workers Union, health care unions, and other unions opposed its...
Apparently, John Roberts's grasp of statistics ranks roughly with Glenn Reynolds's. Relatedly, a view from Mississippi, that racially egalitarian paradise: “I’m going to go out on a limb here, but.
Happy independence, Texas. It's almost criminal that this song wasn't played over the credits of the final episode of Friday Night Lights... ...[Erik]. In light of yesterday's exposure of paid.
ESPN told me so. CNN told me so. NPR told me so. So it must be true. And it is, damn it. All I can say is that I'm much happier to have the greatest player in the world actually look like he's enjoying his life....
The Obama Administration Obama Administration's appointees in the State Department announces its approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline at 4 pm on Sequester Friday. How brave. Disaster for the climate..
The Obama administration filed a brief arguing that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. Bmaz is very upset, calling it "cowardly," "timid," and a "states rights" argument. (I find the latter charge.
Noted without comment. A range of mainstream American publications printed paid propaganda for the government of Malaysia, much of it focused on the campaign against a pro-democracy figure there. The payments to conservative American opinion writers — whose work appeared in outlets from the Huffington Post and ...
With the EPL (Or does Swansea make it the BPL?). I started getting Fox Soccer Channel about a year ago, and I'm getting involved with soccer generally (I'm watching La.
A bare majority of the Supreme Court appears poised to declare racism in America officially dead, or at least a problem the Congress can longer concern itself with. And of.
The homophobia that flows through the NFL is not just with poorly educated players saying stupid things. It's central to the whole system. University of Colorado tight end Nick Kasa was asked by a team executive at the combine, "Do you like girls?" Meanwhile, NFL teams...
A reader sent along notice that Allan Calhamer, inventor of Diplomacy, passed away early this week. The notion that a player may tell all the lies he wants and cross.
This country is so weird. Sometimes exhilarating and sometimes incredibly depressing, the United States is full of paradoxes. This is a tough week for me. There's one big thing to.