A couple commenters here (and I've heard this elsewhere) compared Mark McGwire to Dave Kingman. This really couldn't be more absurd. Let's start with their lifetime OBPs:Kingman: .302McGwire: .394So, except for the fact that McGwire is vastly better at the most important hitter's skill, they were...
After various rumors that he might sign with some sufficiently desperate team failed to pan out, it seems increasingly likely that Barry Bonds has played his last major league game..
Ed Morrissey tries to explain why Obama's perfectly banal remarks about car maintenance and tire inflation are considered some sort of hi-larious gaffe among people who considered The Half Hour.
Apparently it's possible that greatest pitcher athlete in Yankee recorded human history will be going on the D.L. Overhype aside, that's a pretty serious hit, especially given their upcoming schedule. Maybe the Yankees will miss the postseason after all! Of course, I'm sure the Yankees will...
Lee Siegel:I was called names that I can't really repeat on your show. But at one point, someone called me a pedophile, not using that language, and I thought, you.
To spare you valuable time that might be more usefully devoted to, say, the selfless nurturance of human progress, Louis Fisher reads John Yoo's unpublished thoughts on Thomas Jefferson and.
I mean can it?Needless to say MoDo is long past praying for, but really:Despite Obama’s wooing, some women aren’t warming. As Carol Marin wrote in The Chicago Sun-Times, The Lanky One is like an Alice Waters organic chicken — “sleek, elegant, beautifully prepared. Too cool” —...
Via Cernig, the Templars are finally getting back at the Pope:The Association of the Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ, whose members claim to be descended from the legendary.
As a follow-up to Paul's post below, I note that among the people classified as "overweight" by the BMI index we can find...George W. Bush. Sure, he may exercise regularly.
At first glance (via Thers), I thought a blog with the irony-free title "What's Wrong With the World" would be something along the lines of Stuff White People Like. But no, it turns out these people are genuinely funny, like Conservapedia or the Euston Manifesto. Here,...
Even by the remarkably mendacious standards of the "obesity" racket some of the claims in this story are beyond belief.The most laughable is the idea that by 2048 everybody in.
I know that most people don't have time, but this diavlog between Francis Fukuyama and Bob Kagan is really worth watching in its entirety. I think Fukuyama goes a bit.