The Hardball Times evaluates the "Productive Outs" stat now being used by ESPN--expect to get the hard sell from your local broadcaster soon. Anyway, a team's tendency to make "productive outs" has a strong negative correlation with both scoring runs and winning. Apparently, getting on base and...
I don't have much to add to the Poor Man on North Korea, or to Matt Yglesias on Sadr. I'd just like to reiterate how happy I am that the grown ups.
Interesting report flew by on the New York Times: The success of the Indian air force against American fighter planes in a recent exercise suggests other countries may soon be able.
As a follow-up to Rob's post about Iraq as a libertarian paradise, check out this post by Cass Sunstein over at Volokh, which reminds us that we used to have people in positions of power in this country who understood a thing or two about the relationship...
Via Juan Cole, it's clear that someone gets it: In a speech Tuesday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Kennedy, D-Mass., said North Korea and Iran have continued unchecked with.
From John Judis, currently operating out of Talking Points Memo: Bremer's economic program wasn't confined to selling off state enterprises. Bremer saw privatization as part of the broader conservative economic agenda.
Jack Balkin, in a must-read post, provides another reason to be skeptical about Jon Chait's claim that the 2004 election won't be important. Balkin notes the potentially disastrous consequences of further entrenching the constitutional vision of the Bush Administration. I don't believe, as Balkin and Sanford...
William Saletan makes a feeble attempt to defend the worthless "Kerryisms" column. I particularly like this bit of disingenuousness: Another blogger, Eugene Volokh, gets the joke and doesn't like it. "Another possibility.
Here's a pretty interesting post at Crooked Timber arguing that the European Parliament will make future EU-US relations sticky regardless of who wins the November election. Since the University of Washington.
First, read this post. Now, tell me what an Islamo-fascist is. I'm waiting. I don't have all day. . . Actually, that wasn't true. I do have all day. . . Heads up. There is no such critter. Back in the Cold War, we could point to...
GREAT interview between Moore and Katie Couric, see it here, Atrios has a partial transcript. I also have mixed feelings about Moore. I've only seen The Big One, and I really didn't care.
Sy Hersh and Tacitus take up the Iran-as-winner theme; you heard it here first. And in case you're wondering about the Iranian nukes: Iran Rebuked by UN Agency for Withholding Atom.