Fred Kaplan had a characteristically excellent article in Slate yesterday. He argues that no "military transformation" has actually occured during Rumsfeld's tenure at the top of the Defense Department. Rather, the branches have simply become more bloated with equipment that they already had and that bears little...
After the first set of arguments in Brown v. Board of Education, the segregationist Chief Justice Fred Vinson (who voted for upholding Plessy) suddenly passed away. Justice Felix Frankfurter told one of.
Thank you for underlining the extent to which the Yankees' soulless corporate conformity sucks. Yours sincerely, Scott
Giovanni Sartori, in the October 2004 issue of PS: Political Science and Politics: Where is political science going? In the argument that I have offered here, American-type political science (to be sure the "normal science," for intelligent scholars are always saved by their intelligence) is going nowhere....
I know Randy Marsh has a tight strike zone and everything, but belt-high pitches right down the middle of the plate do tend to be called strikes. Please return to.
I'm resigned to seeing the nose hairs of everybody in both dugouts between pitches, but when a pickoff throw is made would you consider switching away from the close-up angle.
Condolences to Mike Hargrove, new Mariners manager. He has the misfortune of having been selected as Bill Bavasi's victim for the next couple of years. That said, not a bad manager, not a bad choice. Did very well with Indians teams for several years, and I really...
The Poor Man on Imperial Hubris: The longest Tacitus post ever. Half right, half wrong, but mostly concerned with stridently asserting the author's own moral superiority to anyone at a higher.
Game 5 of the ALCS had an 18.4 rating. This was higher than NBC and ABC combined--and ABC was showing Monday night football. Not something that's gotten much attention. Whenever.
Cool class. I wish I could take courses from Brad Delong and Barry Eichengreen. I suppose I could try to keep up with the readings, but we all know that's not going to happen.
How to put Schilling, Game 6, into historical perspective? The referents aren't Koufax in 1965, Beckett last year, like that; he was outstanding, but it's not about dominance per se..
I missed the bad calls last night, but let's all give props to the crew for two gutsy and absolutely correct reversals. I also give grudging respect for the canny.