Lou Reed's Magic & Loss has helped me deal with many an untimely death in my life, and now it must do the same for his. But there are things that we can't know, Maybe there's something over there, Some other world that we don't know...
Lou Reed died today. He had a liver transplant in May. Brian Eno remarked that, while only 30,000 people bought a copy of the Velvet Underground's first album, all of.
John Cole talks about the ACA website pearl-clutchers with characteristic restraint. Rebecca Watson is skeptical about this prank. I am, too. This story made me want to me want to.
"Umpires should refuse to apply clear rule to bail out awful play by catcher who shouldn't have been in game." I think we've been through this before, but few things drive me crazier than arguments that officials shouldn't make calls in key situations because this would...
"Boy, I love it when Fox interferes with World Series games to air inane in-dugout interviews!" Note: this would remain true if "love it" is replaced with "find it remotely.
Baylor put up 505 yards of total offense against Kansas tonight. In the first half. . . . I just looked up Weis's contract, and he's guaranteed $2.5 million per.
Abu Muqawama closes up shop. Six and a half years is forever in blog time. On a separate issue, last night's Airpower Movie of the Week simul-tweet was a rousing success, at least by the modest metrics I established for the event (stayed awake, made it...
The august senator from Alabama declares war on the NEH funding the H in its name. And with his own name, you can see why he'd be opposed to the.
I wish the economic advisors of Democratic presidents would improve. Sadly, no. Here’s some of what Sperling had to say. He led off with the importance of entitlement cuts. (All.
Over at The Legal Whiteboard, Jerry Organ has been analyzing the LSAT scores of recent law school entering classes, and he's come to the conclusion that the national entering class of 2013 has 50% more matriculants with LSAT scores of less than 150 than the class...
This is sort of an addendumb to my post about Tea Partiers. This segment is worth watching for Aasif Mandvi's 3- second hilarious interaction with the camera alone, but please.
On October 26, 1825, the Erie Canal opened, eight years after construction commenced. This engineering marvel would have enormous impacts on the future of American work, including spurring ever-greater industrialization,.