I'm watching the Athletics-Red Sox game, and I'm wondering when Javy Lopez picked up his reputation for being so bad defensively. I know that everybody has to love Jason Varitek, and apparently I'm supposed to believe that his pitch-calling is crucial to the success of the...
In the midst of explaining how it's more important to stay in Iraq than it was to stay in Vietnam, William Stuntz writes:But on any plausible scale of strategic value,.
What a depressing ending for Deadwood, not simply in the substance (which, in the last two episodes, was crushing) but also in the sheer incompleteness of the project. Knowing that.
In extremely tepid defense of Joe Biden, I don't think he was BOASTING that Delaware was once a slave state; rather, he was pointing out a basic fact about one of America's most obscure states that many people don't know and that, in particular, his Fox...
Although I don't fully agree, I think ogged has a point about acting and The Wire. It's a really, really, outstanding show, and getting better too. But part of me.
My reaction to the decision to make Plan B available over-the-counter to women over the age of 18 was positive. And, in a sense, it still is; the current policy.
Great post by Brad Plumer on the subject of the 1996 welfare reform bill. The key point is that most assertions that welfare reform has "worked" reference nothing more than the fact that fewer people on welfare. And as Brad notes, this is just a tautology;...
Shorter Verbatim Mark Steyn: "Ann Coulter’s new book Godless: The Church of Liberalism is a rollicking read very tightly reasoned and hard to argue with...Lest you doubt the left’s pieties.
It looks as if there's been a plane crash in Lexington.... Fox News, unhelpfully, was speculating as to whether terrorism was the cause.
In the wake of Snakes on a Plane, Dana Stevens at Slate requested additional, literal minded film titles. The best:The Creature Waits in the StructureThat's Not Sangria!Kittens for BreakfastWoody Allen is Too Old for ThisThe Lord Helps Nonthreatening SouthernersI am Explosive, BosomyAnd finally my favorite, which...
The Washington Naval Treaty dealt the Royal Navy a raw deal. The RN posssesed 32 dreadnoughts and 9 battlecruisers, compared to the 22 dreadnoughts of the USN and the 8.
This gets it right.