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. . . ..
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 to create a consensual Court that papers over major substantive divisions, and 2)since I don't think...
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.
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 following the seizure of white-owned farms.The agricultural ministry announcement that the wheat harvest is only about...
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).
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 the cut to the record label, it'll be the smallest profit they've made from a record...
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.
The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal seeking to nullify a New York law, upheld by state courts, that requires Catholic Charities to provide contraception to women as part.