Since I was accused in comments of "east coast bias" for thinking that the Mets considering a swap of expensive useless players for expensive useless players probably wasn't going to solve anything because the Angels just got fleeced by giving away Joe Saunders, I should note...
Serwer: There are a number of things about Senator Jim Webb's op-ed "The Myth of White Privilege" to dislike, starting with the fact that one of the awesome things about.
Bill Conlin's article about undeserving Hall of Famers makes a lot of odd choices (if otherwise clearly qualified managers are to be excluded for using profanity, for example, the ranks.
Unless the typical quality of coffee available in Arkansas is well below mediocre, or its citizens enjoy donuts that taste like deep-fried sawdust, I think they're in for a disappointment... [via]
David Brooks has changed something about his appearance.... can't put my finger on it. Maybe he got contacts? H/t SN.
Oh, sure, as Paul as already noted today the American Spectator published a reprehensible article as part of the Sharrod smear campaign advancing the ludicrous claim that lynching isn't lynching.
It appears as if my wife and I are the only two people on the face of the planet who hated Inception. She walked out about an hour and change into it—immediately before the tedious exposition that made the rest of the film thuddingly predictable—and I...
Oh, goody: According to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports , the Mets are talking to the Royals about a trade that could involve Oliver Perez, Luis Castillo, and Jeff Francoeur,.
By far the most common defense of the Kagan pick in our comments sections has been to cite her age. Indeed, several regulars have made the claim that Diane Wood's.
Seriously. It's hard to understand how this kind of thing gets published in a world that includes editors, higher cognitive function, and/or common decency. My favorite bit from the comments, defending the author's use of a definition of lynching that limits it to hangings: "Regardless of...
"The biggest intelligence leak in history" was released simultaneously earlier this evening by NYTimes, the Guardian and Der Spiegel. Courtesy of Wikileaks, of course. My initial reaction just from browsing.
This is the sixth installment of an eight part series on the Patterson School’s Summer Reading List. Hide and Seek, Charles Duelfer The Accidental Guerrilla, David Kilcullen The Limits of Power,.