Dave Noon takes the lead!Axis of Evel Knievel, Dave Noon: 803Discipline and Punish, Scott Lemieux: 795Swinging at Space, Kirk Jepsen: 765The Spot, Dave Watkins: 762New Mexico Alterdestiny, Erik Loomis: 746Oregon Bearded Duck, Rob Farley: 570I wonder how my team got quite this bad. . .
Norbizness offers excerpts from the long-lost draft of theStar Wars Episode 4: Some Guys With Cool Swords Spout New Age Banalities That Would Embarass Deepak Chopra screenplay. For example:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Obi-Wan: The.
Via Mark Kleiman, an interesting interview with the great Bill James. He's in fine form, even his baffling ranting about "professionalization" in the New Historical Abstract makes a modicum of.
From Belle Waring:Look, my country is better than this. Or this. Just. Stop.I know I’ve related this before on my own blog, but my grandfather was an OSS spy in WWII. In one of the letters he sent home to my grandmother he describes how he...
TBogg notes that this blog has long sensed the political zeitgeist. And it ain't that pretty at all...
Kameron Hurely notes that "morning after" contraception will soon be available over the counter in my former home and still native land. Obviously, this is the best way around pharmacist.
Via Wolcott.The Venezuelan government has printed one million free copies of Don Quixote to mark the book's 400th anniversary.Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged everyone to read Miguel de Cervantes' Spanish classic.He called on everyone to "feed ourselves once again with that spirit of a fighter who...
Jim Henley offers some suggestions for naming new stadia in D.C. and Indianapolis.I would like to add that this is a particular drawback to the NFL salary cap/revenue sharing structure.
Erik at Alterdestiny has an interesting post on the subject of "ecofascism." In short, Erik is troubled by what he believes are some anti-humanist tendencies in the American environmental movement..
This is pretty funny. Hat tip to JRD. The Ultimate Warrior, like just about any professional wrestler, has been involved in his fair share of over-the-top moments. A voodoo curse was placed on him by Papa Shango, causing him to vomit profusely. Another rival wrestler, the...
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
Bill at By Dawn's Early Light has put together a nice post that considers China's expanding power and constructs what might be a reasonable approach to containing that power, especially.