I was an Edwards supporter early on, so I find this particularly disturbing. In an ideal world I agree this would be a private affair in every sense, but did he really think he could get away with this while running for president? And did...
Author: Paul Campos
In the comments to the Hiroshima thread below, djw asks an excellent question, in response to justifications for dropping the bomb on Japan because doing so arguably saved many more.
Picasso's painting memorializes the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War that killed several hundred civilians. At the time the incident shocked the world. Eight years later,.
After various rumors that he might sign with some sufficiently desperate team failed to pan out, it seems increasingly likely that Barry Bonds has played his last major league game. If so, then Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa will all be appearing on your...
I mean can it?Needless to say MoDo is long past praying for, but really:Despite Obama’s wooing, some women aren’t warming. As Carol Marin wrote in The Chicago Sun-Times, The Lanky.
Even by the remarkably mendacious standards of the "obesity" racket some of the claims in this story are beyond belief.The most laughable is the idea that by 2048 everybody in.
This is a pretty nice stat line. Ziegler's story has Billy Beane's and thus Bill James's fingerprints all over it. A 20th-round draft pick out of college who spent a few years struggling in the low minors, the A's converted him to a submarine-style pitching...
Because looking around the major news sites on the intertubes it's rather amazing how relatively little attention this story is getting.And not to go all Truther or anything but that.
Resistance is Futile.Yes this whole saga is super annoying, what with Chris Mortensen's hourly reports from his location inside Favre's ass, but I'm getting intrigued by the game theory aspects.My.
Detroit media outlets reporting Yankees have acquired Ivan Rodriguez. No word on what the Tigers got.While obviously not close to the player he was in his prime, IRod is an exactly average AL hitter at this point, which makes him a better than average hitter...
A top government research scientist I know has a theory about the "obesity epidemic." Dr. X isn't allowed to speak on the record to the media about X's work without.
I've just read Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which Robert Farley reviewed on LGM back when it was published a couple of years ago. I hadn't read anything by McCarthy before,.