Via USS Mariner, here is an excellent Forbes article on the financial situation of the Seattle Mariners. As successful as the team is, nobody in management really likes to talk about it. Mariners President Charles Armstrong, who declined an interview with FORBES, instead told a Seattle...
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
Halfway through my lecture on the history of US-China foreign relations yesterday, I come to the topic of the Sino-Soviet split. I reel off a few causes (geopolitical tensions, pushy.
Heartiest congratulations to Rob on his postdoc! This blog can only be improved by a perspective from Real America, and by all accounts I've heard Lexington is a fine town. As is often the case, I believe this celebration requires Randy Newman in the background: Turpentine...
By a 2-1 vote, the Central Committee of Lawyers, Guns and Money has decided to establish a "Red State" bureau in Lexington, Kentucky. It is believed that much of our.
Nathan Newman, Sam Rosenfeld, and Brad Plumer are of course correct--the filibuster rule in the Senate has been one of the most potent weapons that American reactionaries have had, and.
I knew Bobby Madritsch was a risk. I thought he would last longer than four innings.
Ah, this is more like it:M Rivera (L, 1-1; B, 2) 0.2 3 5 1 3 1 0 38-18 10.80And Slappy Rodriguez making the key error is just icing on.
I can always trust Lance Mannion to have a wonderful set of observations on an obscure group of topics that I never considered thinking about before I read his blog..
Imagine my suprise when, while channel surfing this morning, I come across a showing of The Manchurian Candidate. What, you say? Not so surprising? Yes, but one does not typically find a film like The Manchurian Candidate on the Encore True Stories channel.
It's possible that Rummy said this with a straight face:``I don't have any evidence...'' that Venezuela will turn over some of the weapons to Colombian rebels, Rumsfeld told the Herald.``All.
Via Pandagon, Jonah Goldberg writes:I guarantee you that among PhD candidates in America’s leading universities, for every “conservative” who believes the world was created in six days there are 100.