Like Ezra and Shakes, I hope that Al Gore will run in ’08, and would, at a minimum, strongly lean toward supporting him in the primaries. Neil tries to throw some cold water on the parade. He makes at least one good point, although I’m not convinced by the overall argument: The sound point is […]
It appears that Montenegro has voted to secede from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro. A 55% supermajority was needed, and it looks as if they’ve just managed to get there. Let’s hope tha
The show last night in Louisville was, as expected, outstanding. The timing was very tight, as each band had only abot 45 minutes to play. We missed one or two Escovedo songs because he apparently sta
Part III of a four part series to commemmorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. Part I: SMS LutzowPart II: HMS Lion The first eight German dreadnoughts followed the naming convention previously adopted for pre-dreadnoughts. Like in the US Navy, battleships were named after states. This changed with the construction of the Kaisers, […]
A.O. Scott’s review of the The Da Vinci Crap (“Ron Howard’s adaptation of Dan Brown’s best-selling primer on how not to write an English sentence”) is a goldmine for love
This is encouraging: As of Friday, Cook rates 75 seats as potentially competitive, of which the GOP must defend 55 (or 73 percent, up from 68 percent the previous week). Among the seats that could bec
The problem with trading an outstanding young pitcher for an injury-prone mediocrity and a good innings-eater for an arsonist reliever is that you end up with such unplanned special events as “Lima Time!” and “Fireworks Day with Jeremi Gonzalez.” These events may be highly flammable. Fortunately, you might be bailed out a bit going up […]
And by the title, I don’t just mean our Round 2 prediction record (when you’re right 0% of the time, you’re wrong 100% of the time! Although that’s a little misleading, because
Interesting stuff. Via Helmut: Just as the Bush administration is ignoring our efforts in the war on terror, it is also thwarting attempts to bring notorious terrorists to justice, and it is doing so
[Picture via LGF watch.] One of the strategies that we’re going to see more from cultural reactionaries is to misleadingly cite “religious freedom” in asking for broad exemptions to civil rights law, which we recently saw in a Weekly Standard cover story authored by Maggie Gallagher. In a subsequent post, I’ll actually express some sympathy […]
Chris Bertram: And I’ve enjoyed all of them, with the possible exception of The Drive-By Truckers who struck me as over-loud Skynyrd wannabees Ack. Responding to a statement like that would lend it
Friday Cat Blogging… Nelson and Starbuck