Interesting. French Budget Minister Jean-Francois Cope has announced the launch of an online game for the country’s taxpayers to have a go at balancing the books. The game, called Cyberbudget, will launch in May and will let users manage 300bn euros ($373bn). Some 10,000 players will be able to play at any one time for […]
Shorter Verbatim FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, justifying the political denial of over-the-counter status for Plan B: “…we could not anticipate, or prevent extreme promiscuous behaviors
I’m generally a fan of Keith Hernandez as a color commentator, and certainly the Cohen/Hernandez combo is infinitely preferable to the Michael Kay horror show at Al-Yankeezera. I even once had a
Check out our results. Short summary: If you’ve ever wondered “Am I the only angry loner who reads LGM?”, the answer is no. Other interesting results: – The professional distribution is a lot more even than I would have expected; I had thought we’d skew very heavily toward legal and education sectors. – I’m not […]
Why is the Bush Administration paying for what it’s already getting for free?
DD(X) has a number. It is now DDG 1000. The reasons for this are unclear. It’s fair to say that the Navy’s system for numbering ships is inconsistent. The last Spruance class destroyer was
As a follow-up to Eric Boehlert’s mockery of Hugh Hewitt’s claim that big-city newspaper circulation is declining because they don’t offer the reactionary hackery that readers crave, let’s consider an even better example, the high comedy that is the New York Sun: The New York Sun has launched an aggressive new tactic in order to […]
Bill Petti: Rep. Charles H. Taylor (R-N.C.) decides to take a ‘principled stand’ and is holding up $10 million dollars necessary to buy the land where a monument to the passengers and crew
Drinking Liberally-Lexington is meeting at 7pm tonight at the Horse and Barrel (101 North Broadway). Stop by…
Claims Goldstein: “legal conservatism has the drawback of showing undue deferrence to stare decisis.” So, apparently, Clarence “Because I believe that the demise of the Privileges or Immunities Clause has contributed in no small part to the current disarray of our Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence, I would be open to reevaluating its meaning in an appropriate […]
There’s probably not a subject that’s seen more useless internet commentary than Star Trek, but, characteristically, Lance manages to add something insightful. Read. Speaking of the Trek,
I barely managed to stomach Hitchens latest on the McCarthy leak; I don’t recommend the effort. Suffice it to say that Hitch can’t quite manage to recommend the notion of secret CIA prison