Obviously, this is only going to last as long as it takes the Supreme Court to give the green light again, or for the state to find a new lethal injection formula that might lessen the chance of being tortured to death, but the Texas Court...
James Dolan and Isiah Thomas.
Today, in day 2 of the term, the Supreme Court heard two cases involving the US Sentencing guidelines. Both cases involve decisions by lower courts to sentence drug offenders to.
Via Cliopatra, it's the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks.On days like today, these are the sorts of grammatical transgressions that make me want to garrote a panda. . . . oh, and what the hell is an apostrophe doing in the middle of the word "gourmet?"Come...
Most of this lament for the polarization of the Roberts Court I addressed in a TAP article recently. The short version is that 1)Roberts will certainly fail in his attempt.
A couple of weeks ago, Slate held a dialogue about Hanna Rosin's new book God's Harvard. The book is about Patrick Henry College, a small evangelical college of recent vintage.
Putin's move on the prime minister's office seems fairly simple. I don't really disagree with anything Stratfor writes about it:In our opinion, Putin had both the authority and the informal levers to dominate Russian politics without holding any formal office, simply working in the background. However,...
It gets worse and worse:Zimbabwe's bakeries have shut and supermarkets have warned there will be no bread for the foreseeable future as the government admitted that wheat production had collapsed.
Wow. Condolences to TBogg -- and congratulations to Jeebus. I was pulling for the Padres, but that was an amazing game. With the Phils and now Colorado having closed out.
...or, "Is there anything that Bill Kristol says that won't eventually find its way into Christopher Hitchens Mouth?"China also maintains territorial claims against India and Vietnam (and, of course, Taiwan) and is building a vast army, as well as a huge oceangoing navy, to back up...
Radiohead has a new album coming out on 10/10. It's their first non-big studio album in quite some time. They've produced it and are marketing it themselves. But even without.
To thearistokatz, manager of the Lonesome Tadahitos, and winner of the 2007 LGM Baseball Challenge. As soon as I'm favored with an e-mail address, thearistokatz will receive a much-coveted LGM.