Before I had a chance to respond to Yglesias' repeating of highly flawed received wisdom about competitive balance and baseball, he finds some relevant data. To this, I will add that 1)as demonstrated in the Historical Abstract, baseball was more competitively balanced in the 90s...
Author: Scott Lemieux
DHS pedophilia edition.
I don't have a whole lot to add to the Supreme Court's denial of cert in the Padilla case that if you're interested you haven't read elsewhere. It's certainly quite.
Shorter Jason Apuzzo: based on my trademark film trailer and poster criticism, I assume that this movie is a brief against guns. This makes it highly hypocritical because many film directors actually like guns, and as we all know "Hollywood" is a monolithic entity in...
...must be "politically incorrect." A classic example:"That's when my public school principal (in Orange, CA) decreed that the '69 World Series would be played over the school PA system. With.
The winners of the Koufax Awards are up. A terrific list, as you would expect. Special shout-outs go to long-time friends and supporters of L, G & M Shakespeare's Sister,.
Ah, so Opening Day is upon us, not a moment too soon. How will things go this year? Now you'll know! Teams listed as I think they'll finish (*is the wild card):AL East: NY Bos Tor TB Bal The top two are basically a coin...
Shorter J-Pod, Don Imus co-bigots, Jeff Goldstein and (natch) Jonah Goldberg: Goddammit, if I was kidnapped at gunpoint with my companion shot, I couldn't be more sure when I was.
I never thought I would say this, but Colorado's favorite combination of half-understood literary theory and run-on wingnuttery has some great posts today. Just keep scrolling!
When there was talk of Leo Mazzone leaving the Braves for the Yankees, I was torn between my social scientist side and my despise-the-Yankees-with-the-intense-heat-of-a-million-suns side. I certainly didn't want the Yankees to benefit from him, but I was interested to see how the Braves would...
The rule of law? Vaffanculo! Between Scalia's recent civility and judicial conduct issues and attending this excellent (if depressing) conference last Friday I was reminded of my favorite assessment of.
If you saw Atrios' post today but you don't read The Stranger, Seattle's fine alt-weekly, and only know "Savage Love," you may not be aware of how abjectly bad Dan.