The winners of the Koufax Awards are up. A terrific list, as you would expect. Special shout-outs go to long-time friends and supporters of L, G & M Shakespeare's Sister, FireDogLake, Crooks & Liars, Bitch Ph.D., P.Z. Myers, Michael Berube, Rox Populi, Echidne of the Snakes,...
In the course of denouncing a University of Texas professor for making an environmentally apocalyptic statement, Sully gives us the following. See if you can pick out the problem:In the.
Apologies regarding slow posting as of late. I turned 32 on Saturday, and the impact of my accelerating decrepitude has become increasingly obvious. Sunday Battleship Blogging will return next week.In.
Ah, so Opening Day is upon us, not a moment too soon. How will things go this year? Now you'll know! Teams listed as I think they'll finish (*is the wild card):AL East: NY Bos Tor TB Bal The top two are basically a coin flip....
Shorter J-Pod, Don Imus co-bigots, Jeff Goldstein and (natch) Jonah Goldberg: Goddammit, if I was kidnapped at gunpoint with my companion shot, I couldn't be more sure when I was.
Read Matt's thoughts on loneliness and the Seattle shootings.
I never thought I would say this, but Colorado's favorite combination of half-understood literary theory and run-on wingnuttery has some great posts today. Just keep scrolling!
When there was talk of Leo Mazzone leaving the Braves for the Yankees, I was torn between my social scientist side and my despise-the-Yankees-with-the-intense-heat-of-a-million-suns side. I certainly didn't want the.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
The rule of law? Vaffanculo! Between Scalia's recent civility and judicial conduct issues and attending this excellent (if depressing) conference last Friday I was reminded of my favorite assessment of Bush v. Gore, Kim Lane Scheppele's "When the Law Doesn't Count: The Rule of Law and...
If you saw Atrios' post today but you don't read The Stranger, Seattle's fine alt-weekly, and only know "Savage Love," you may not be aware of how abjectly bad Dan.
Why has boxing become irrelevant?Five years ago, ten years ago, fifteen years ago I was always able to name the heavyweight champion, a few of the major heavyweight contenders, and.