In the comments to a post about some ev-psych wankery at the Freakonomics blog, Belle Waring has uncovered someone taking "Nice Guy" self-pity to quite remarkable depths. A taste (and doesn't his personality seem wonderful):Any good looking guy knows that women favor ugly men. It...
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A while ago, Kevin Drum declared that Rodger Federer was the most dominant athlete in any sport today. I've wondered about this for some time. For my money (and it.
Thoughts on the Shatner Roast? I haven't watched the whole thing, but the parts I've seen were pretty funny. I'm pretty skeptical about the comedy value of the "roast" format,.
143 years ago today, a guerrilla group called Quantrill's Raiders rolled into Lawrence, Kansas. Lawrence was a target of Confederate ire because it had been a center of anti-slavery activity during the "Bleeding Kansas" years, in which pro and anti slavery forces strove to control...
In light of today's "closing the barn door after thieves have stolen your livestock, burned down the barn, killed your family, and absconded with a trillion dollars" revelations by the.
Ugh:The idea is that when they break up the drug ring, the dealers forfeit the suitcases full of money found in their closet next to the kilo of coke. The.
Martha Nussbaum's review of Harvey Mansfield's Manliness is the most devastating critique of the philosophical pretensions of a Strauss disciple since...Nussbaum's evisceration of The Closing of the American Mind. (I'm not sure if the review is available to nonsubscribers; generous excerpts are available here.) While...
A few points on Boston Massacre II: The Red Sox made two crucial moves that 1)I heartily supported at the time, and 2)have, in retrospect, turned out to be bad-to-disastrous..
In his review of an interesting-looking new LBJ biography, Alan Brinkley writes:Woods challenges as well a critical element of Caro’s extraordinary portrait of Texas politics in the second volume of.
This is a grim bit of business. At least he's bringing in Papelbon now......that could have been worse. Now I'd like to see A-Rod hit into the DP......Papelbon did a great job; could have been so, so much worse. Now I'm going to bed, and...
The Atlanta Braves have, in one form or another, been playing baseball since 1876. Indeed, in their Boston incarnation the Braves franchise has been playing since 1871, although the National.
This is the sixth of an eight (but probably just seven) part review series of the Patterson Summer Reading List.1. Colossus, Niall Ferguson2. Illicit, Moises Naim3. The End of Poverty,.