I sure hope that 98% of EPSN's news coverage consists of breathless reports about whether and where the 27th best QB in the NFL will play in 2009, just like it did last year.As Allen Barra points out, the Jets would have been much better off...
The Provost at UK has launched a "War on Attrition", designed to mobilize faculty around the goal of keeping economically marginal students in school during the recession. In spite of.
Michelle Goldberg on signals that Obama will rescind "don't ask, don't tell":Granted, he didn’t say when it was going to happen, but it’s definitely an encouraging sign, and one with.
With Henderson going to the Hall of Fame, now is as good a time as any to relive the greatest Rickey stories of all time. This profile in The New Yorker a few years back was also pretty excellent.I'm not quite sure why, but I always...
Concur with Spencer re: the banning of the participation Arab political parties in the next Israeli election. Such a ban effectively disenfranchises Israel's Arab minority, making the claim that "Israel.
I strongly endorse Dahlia Lithwick's position in the debate in the Sunday Times about the prosecution of Bush administration war criminals. Making Lithwick's argument stronger are the embarrassingly weak conclusions.
I know the state of Michigan is reluctant to turn down money from the feds these days, but this kind of thing really should be left to wingnuttier states. In fairness, its administrators certainly can mount a convincing defense:And a study by the John Hopkins Bloomberg...
Few actors on the fringes of American politics have been so consistently insane as David Joel Horowitz, who commences his eighth decade of douchebaggery today.Like the itinerant street prophets who.
Much of interest here:Early in 2008, the Israeli government signaled that it might be preparing to take matters into its own hands. In a series of meetings, Israeli officials asked.
Jacob Weisberg:The disputed dates and details go to the most interesting larger issues about what went wrong during the Bush years. Did Bush's own innocence and incompetence drive his missteps? Or was it the people around him, most importantly his vice president, who manipulated him into...
This is funny. However, I feel confident in asserting that the AutoZone Liberty Bowl was substantially superior in this respect to the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl, where UK played.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of people:Five of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked oil-laden Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported $3 million ransom.