Congratulations to Ichiro Suzuki, who just singled up the middle to break George Sisler's 84 year old hit record. A classy guy, he took time to speak with the Sisler family after getting the hit. We had a conversation earlier on the blog comparing Sisler with...
Ichiro! Very classy all the way. Did it in his first 2 ABs, Randy Newman's soundtrack from The Natural playing, George Sisler's daughter in attendance. Cool.
One of Yglesias's commenters nails it: Bush was at times defensive, insecure and peevish. Sometimes he almost seemed to be defending his intelligence, as when he kept insisting "I know how.
I watched it on the first floor of the college, where NBC set up cameras to interview students, before and after. I felt as nervous as before a game 7 I was invested in. For those who missed the debate, here's the summary: Kerry: Detailed critiques...
Reputation is important, or so we are told. Norm Podhoretz thinks that reputation is really important. In fact, he has argued that the September 11 attacks are a direct result.
I give up. I'll concede that I really don't understand why the adminstration can't expand the size of the Army to meet its needs in Iraq and elsewhere. This report suggests.
Matt Yglesias writes: The South in the late nineteenth century was a region that heartily deserved to be subjected to some hostile sentiments. Nothing pissed me off more than my high school history textbook's many disparaging references to these insidious "radical Republicans" in the late-1860s and 1870s...
Well, the inevitable is now official. Since I'll be going to Shea to see their last game ever on Sunday, I'll post more about it then. I do wish to note.
Majikthise tries to work on her social skills. . . ME: How's the wedding planning going? COWORKER: Pretty good. But everyone has an opinion. Like, we're trying to go with.
This is the last goddamn thing we need: George Lucas wants to bring a live-action “Star Wars” series to television by autumn 2006. The good guys at the Inland Empire Strikes Back Web site have been chatting up some insiders up at Lucasfilm, and they’re all talking...
Bad things are happening in Congress. For more read Belle Waring, Ted Barlow, and Katharine at Obsidian Wings, Kevin at Lean left, Jeanne at Body and Soul. If you don't know what "extraordinary rendition" means,.
Christopher Layne's work is to be viewed with great skepticism, but about this he is surely correct: The strategy of preponderance aims at attaining a condition that approximates absolute security.