As he prepares to break George Sisler's record, I thought I would celebrate by passing along a remarkable junk stat. Bill James developed a series of tests that attempted to predict whether a player would make the hall-of-fame. One is called the Hall-of-Fame Monitor, which (looking...
The latest embarrassing hackwork of the Instarube reminds me of this gem from the Crooked Timber archives about the National Review, which has been flogging the Rather story to an even more remarkable.
We need to revisit part of LTC Smith's Weekly Standard article: Historical apologists say that the Japanese were "forced" to attack us because we were strangling their trade in Asia. Sound.
See Laura Rozen, via Kevin Drum, for the November 2001 State Department map showing Al Qaeda activity. Guess what country doesn't show any signs of Al Qaeda. State Department is full of communists, anyway. By the way, the comments count at the bottom of each post isn't...
Lieutenant Colonel Powl Smith has an article in the latest Weekly Standard, alluded to below by DJW. I will reserve judgement as to whether LTC Smith actually believes the argument that.
I'm far too old and broke to go see this much live music in such a short period of time, (and looking at the dates, I might be too depressed.
Matt Yglesias applies a proper beating to Max Boot when the latter tries to compare Bush with Lincoln: This would be more plausible if Lincoln had launched the Civil War on some kind of whim while substantially ignoring more pressing threats. Still, the point is well taken....
What's most amazing about the elements of the right who are fighting rhetorical battles on behalf of the president isn't so much the mendacity, although that can be pretty awe-inspiring..
My alienation from a show I used to watch religiously is even greater than Rob's; I haven't watched a second of either show in the new season. James Wolcott amplifies the.
Courtesy of a friend of Seb (of Sadly, No fame), I now have a beta gmail account. So all readers of L, G &M who were not sending me feedback at my old address can now not send it to the gmail address in my profile. We...
A veritable Instapundit classic today: You know, the more I look at the new, Dean-channeling Kerry, the more I think that he doesn't expect to win. He's given up trying to.
Has anyone ever seen the Spanish movie The Spirit of the Beehive? I don't know much about it, but because the uprcoming screening at Hunter will be hosted by Pedro Almodovar,.