Seems to me that Ivan Rodriguez deserves at least a thread here at LGM: Ivan Rodriguez made one last throw from behind home plate to second base at Rangers Ballpark. The 14-time All-Star catcher announced his retirement Monday, ending a 21-season playing career spent mostly in...
This is more Scott's beat than mine, but evidently Chuck Klosterman -- the nitwit who couldn't spend 30 minutes or so actually listening to a tUnE-yArDs album ("wow, their lyrics.
Won't someone please think of the children?????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! These days, you can’t get a sugar high without experiencing a cultural low. Hello, I’m Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in.
Rick Scott makes his case to be the unofficial chairman of the Republican War On Parody and War on Women Committees: Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) shocked the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence this week when he vetoed $1.5 million in funding for 30 rape crisis...
Above: Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany Nobody could have predicted that policies that don't make any sense in theory and have been disastrous in practice when tried before would fail again:.
And for such a long time I suspected that Israel would squash the sale of F-16 to Iraq. Looks like some other people are also nervous: Massud Barzani, the president.
In last week's Airpower class, someone wondered why conventionally armed ballistic missiles weren't used by the United States in the Vietnam War. The answers seem obvious, but then explaining why stupid things don't happen is easy; it's harder to explain why some stupid things happen and...
I've been thinking a lot about Levon Helm and The Band over the past week. A few final thoughts. I've been really impressed with the outpouring of grief for the.
Colin asks a good question about the so-called Latin American "left." One of the biggest problems here is that, simply put, I don’t buy characterizations of people like Correa, Chavez,.
Big agriculture is going to the mat for what really matters--exploiting child labor. Last year, two teenagers handling a large grain auger had their legs severed while working at the Zaloudek Grain Co. in Oklahoma. The Department of Labor (DOL) proposed rules that might have prevented...
Andrew March has an excellent piece about the suppression of speech that has been made possible by Congress, the Obama administration, and the Supreme Court's regrettable decision in Holder v..
I have some thoughts about Ronald Dworkin's new NYRB article on the constitutionality of the PPACA. My primary takeaway: Alas, as Dworkin also notes while the constitutional issues involved in.