As someone who believes that spring break should be used for scholarly purposes, I thought it would be a good idea to observe oral arguments in the compelling case of Martinez v. Smoltz of Fulton County, Georgia. The latter have more precedents on their side than...
Lindsay and iocaste are quite correct that John Tierney and David Brooks are drawing the wrong lesson from the recent studies which show that being modestly overweight correlates with longer.
When he's not buying Thai prostitutes, Nick Kristof occasionally gets one right.But if the Bush administration had just adopted the policies that Colin Powell initially pushed for - and that.
Seattle area readers,There will be a free screening of the Fog of War tomorrow from 6-9pm at the HUB Auditorium, under the auspices of Pi Sigma Alpha, UW's Political Science Honor Society. Dr. Lance Bennett, Professor Roger Morris, and myself will apparently answer questions about the...
Final exam questions at Jim Evans Academy of Professional Umpiring.I scored 7/10 on the True-False, 3/4 on the Make the Call, and 3/4 on the Fair or Foul.UPDATE: Fair or.
Can someone explain to me how Dennis Miller can stay on the air with these ratings? Wait, let me guess. Anyway, I suppose his Daily Show appearance was a futile.
Dave Noon takes the lead!Axis of Evel Knievel, Dave Noon: 803Discipline and Punish, Scott Lemieux: 795Swinging at Space, Kirk Jepsen: 765The Spot, Dave Watkins: 762New Mexico Alterdestiny, Erik Loomis: 746Oregon Bearded Duck, Rob Farley: 570I wonder how my team got quite this bad. . .
Norbizness offers excerpts from the long-lost draft of theStar Wars Episode 4: Some Guys With Cool Swords Spout New Age Banalities That Would Embarass Deepak Chopra screenplay. For example:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Obi-Wan: The.
Via Mark Kleiman, an interesting interview with the great Bill James. He's in fine form, even his baffling ranting about "professionalization" in the New Historical Abstract makes a modicum of.
From Belle Waring:Look, my country is better than this. Or this. Just. Stop.I know I’ve related this before on my own blog, but my grandfather was an OSS spy in WWII. In one of the letters he sent home to my grandmother he describes how he...
TBogg notes that this blog has long sensed the political zeitgeist. And it ain't that pretty at all...
Kameron Hurely notes that "morning after" contraception will soon be available over the counter in my former home and still native land. Obviously, this is the best way around pharmacist.