It's nice to see King Kaufman tackle a particularly stupid element of sports labor-bashing, the idea that increasing ticket prices are due to high salaries:A Sox fan named Don Watts made the old connection between salaries and high prices to a reporter from the Fitchburg Sentinel...
I think it's correct to say that it's frequently "a background assumption of the conversation -- so much so that neither participant questions it -- that women have the ability.
Another interesting article in the April 3 Defense News concerns the increasing focus of the world's navies on "expeditionary" ships, like LPDs, LHDs, LCCs, LHAS, command ships, and so forth. Broadly, this group includes just about any ship that is designed to manage, project, and protect...
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson
One strange thing about Stanley Fish's defense of an originalism based on discovering the intentions of the author is that most defenders of originalism see the obvious fallacy involved. In.
Odd; maybe it's that I had a good news/company/food kinda day, but I'm actually inclined to celebrate the 2005-6 Northwest Division champions while noting the admittedly glorious Canucks elimination as a secondary item. Of course, the ressentiment frame doesn't really fit in this case anyway, since...
Matt notes that the Weekly Standard has a pet Air Force general, Thomas McInery, who is willing to recycle every bit of nonsense about airpower that you can think of;.
Interesting article in the latest Defense News (subscription required) about the Navy's decision to fold its minesweeping assets into the Anti-Submarine Warfare Command. The move obviously doesn't make sense to.
William Kristol--who I would say was "phoning it in" except that punching the numbers on the phone requires effort; it's more like that Alec Baldwin "how to be a handsome actor" sketch where you just pick up the phone and start talking, or in this case...
Make sure to read Fred Kaplan's column on the increasing discomfort of the officer corps with the Bush administration, and with Don Rumsfeld in particular. Also take a look at.
The problem with the wingnut math put forward by the likes of Tinsley is that between running the IRS, foreign aid, grants to Robert Mapplethorpe and buying Cadillacs for welfare.