I've talked about Bird Dog from Tacitus before, probably overmuch. I've mentioned that, as Tacitus himself has devoted more and more time to Redstate.org, he's allowed Bird Dog to take over the old Tacitus site, and how this has coincided with precipitous decline in the quality of commentary....
From Ted Barlow, Crooked Timber. When told not to mention John Kerry’s name in his response, Edwards mentioned it twice. Legend has it that if you say John Kerry’s name three.
I also thought this was one of the best lines of the debate. It gets to the heart of the problems with what passes for "conservatism" in this country. The.
Matt has a brilliant post on Cheney's suitability as a Bond villain: A caretaker one? Yes, even though Cheney would not be out of place as a Bond villain, I don't think he would rank very highly in the pantheon unless he A) seriously renovated his...
Can it be that hard to make up plausible lies? Addressing the National Prayer Breakast, Cheney said: "Thank you. Thank you very much. Congressman Watts, Senator Edwards, friends from across America.
The estimation quiz was fun. Despite managing to guess Tony Benn's age, I couldn't best Rob: 36%. I'm really, really bad at estimating weights and distances (and when did they.
Ever wonder how The Addams Family and Oz ended up in the same television universe? Crossovers. Lots of them. Some with unintended effects. For example, we know that The Simpsons are in the same fictional universe as Law and Order because Mulder and Scully of X-Files once appeared...
A pair of excellent posts from Brad Delong this morning. The first deals with the question of how a reasonably smart group of people (as, frankly, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, et.
Everyone else seems to have posted on these: Estimation Quiz: 39% Politics Quiz: Practical Lefty (very surprising, I know)
Michael Moore turned down the Killian memos, considering them to be unreliable. When Michael Moore has a more rigorous vetting process than CBS News, we have problems. If this sort of thing only happened to Republicans, then I might be inclined to give more weight to the...
Well, that was a tough day. But it was poignant to be at Shea for such a sad, momentous day: the retirement of Todd Zeile. Every time between innings, when.
I wept, very briefly, following his final at bat. Edgar leaves with a .312 batting average, .419 on base percentage, and .517 slugging percentage. If you're not familiar, those are all.