I should start by thanking Rob and the gang for allowing me to guest blog at LGM. I'm actually starting a little early, but I have a fairly busy schedule Monday...Anyway, I'm a bit older than the regular bloggers and have a daughter about to enter...
Jim Jones, the son of a Klansman who originally hailed from Indiana, was born on this date in 1931. He sold monkeys door-to-door to finance his first ministry in downtown.
Tomorrow I'll be leaving for Albuquerque. Coverage of the Kentucky beat will be left in the able hands of the distinguished Rodger Payne of Duck of Minerva and Rodger Payne,.
The House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen came into existence in 1576 as the result of one of many splits within the original House Hohenzollern. Unlike their more famous Franconian cousins, the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen House remained Roman Catholic. For almost 300 years, the family ruled over the small principality of...
Don DeLillo's new novel about 9/11 is out. It's been 30 years since the publication of Players, the first of DeLillo's works to deal with the the psychology, organization and.
Above: Mariners President Chuck Armstrong and GM Bill BavasiI see that Jeff Weaver will be resting his 14.32 ERA on the D.L. with Lit up like Jaime Navarro in Coors.
In light of this, I breathlessly await a lengthy diatribe form Mickey Kaus in which he argues for strengthening teacher's unions so that they're protected from having their innovation crushed by nitwit bureaucrats who don't really know anything about teaching. [But he doesn't care about educational...
Today, we celebrate the women who grunted us into being, nourished us to maturity, soothed our wounds, comforted us in sickness, confiscated our drugs, embarrassed us in front of friends,.
Last Tuesday's episode of Veronica Mars was fine and all, but I'm really not convinced that we need to encourage over the hill musicians to play more stuff "from the.
Between March 2003 and August 2006, there was never a period in Iraq in which Coalition casualties exceeded 2.5/day for each of three consecutive months. Since September 2006, Coalition casualties have exceeded 2.5/day every single month. Barring a remarkable downturn in violence, May will be the...
When I first met with the TAPPED folks in March, Adele Stan asked "How did you get into this security stuff?" That's not quite the right question; I think that.
You may have seen this article in which Theda Skocpol called for a greater emphasis on teaching at Harvard. MMF has interesting commentary. It's always been strange to me--especially in.