At most ballparks the staff find creative ways to make crappy players look good; "Dan Wilson is hitting .307 in 16 of his last 24 games," and so forth. Apparently, the Reds crew thought that they would try to do Wandy Rodriguez a favor, but it...
Essentially, among people who don't think that the Supreme Court's perspectives should range only from "Rockefeller Republican" to "Newt Gingrich Republican," there have been two excuses for nominating Elena Kagan.
Finding out that liberal pundits were happy when Barack Obama won the 2008 election is a remarkably shocking scandal. Tucker Carlson is truly redefining journalism for our time.
I think our commenter Bob sums it up well: If authenticity mattered Billy Ray Cyrus, born into a Pentecostal family in KY, would be a much better musician than Ingram Cecil Connor III, better known as Gram Parsons, who was driven to prep school by a...
Paul Waldman on the subject of painting Energy Department roofs white to save energy: I'm guessing conservatives will attack this idea, because ... well, because conservation is for wimps, or.
After seven years of living in the UK, two institutions that I admire (which never fails to invite derision from some quarters in Britain) are the BBC and the NHS..
I'm teaching two sections of my comics course in Fall 2010, and instead of relying on all the Batman or Alan Moore material, I decided to test-drive chapters from the upcoming book. The first is called "American Manga," and in it I'll be teaching the first...
With now multiple major oceanic oil spills occupying the world's attention, a few commentators and NGOs are trying to remind us of the various other ecological disasters that may be.
Now I see that Big Journalism is ablaze with this article in which The Daily Caller's Jonathan Strong reveals that the cosigners a letter published in The Nation in April.
Every time I go off the grid for a few days the world I return to seems vastly dumber: Also, does anyone really believe that Andrew Breitbart would intentionally distort a video clip to make a one-day splash? Risk his growing reputation with a deliberate, easily...
Something that I and other colleagues have noted at institutions similar to my current employer is that there seems to be an omnipresent implied, when not explicit, anti-intellectual current defining.
For the first few months, I was responsible for more general day-to-day child care than my wife. She was working full time, and since I was teaching only one course.