Is Oliver "Clothesoff" Perez (3-13, 6.55 E.R.A.) having the worst season of any pitcher ever to start a seventh game? Not that I think Randolph is wrong--Perez had a 139 ERA+ just 2 years ago, and in an all-hands-on-deck game it makes sense to start the...
There are obviously a lot of signs that Senator Man-On-Dog's remaining tenure can be measured in weeks, but I'd have to say that "citing Michael Cimino movies as evidence" has.
The forced pregnancy lobby in South Dakota really is a piece of work. It's becoming less common to to see campaign ads have outright lies in them (rather than just.
The BBC asked 27,000 respondents in 25 countries to briefly evaluate these two statements:Most countries have agreed to rules prohibiting torturing prisoners. Which position is closer to yours?Terrorists pose such an extreme threat that governments should now be allowed to use some degree of torture if...
Riverbend reflects on the Lancet study:The responses were typical- war supporters said the number was nonsense because, of course, who would want to admit that an action they so heartily.
Dave and Gary both have both commented on Yglesias' post on George Kennan and the appreciation of foreign policy expertise at the beginning of the Cold War. I'd like to.
Evidence cannot discredit revolutionary doctrine, as the revolutionaries simply interpret new evidence in whatever way they see fit. Air power enthusiasts have taken rather a hit lately, first with the failure of air power to tame Hezbollah in Lebanon (to the extent that the IDF did...
Charles Pierce reminds me of my favorite conspiracy, Operation Northwoods. In his new exposé of the National Security Agency entitled Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights a set of.
The Wall Street Journal had decided to turn the question of the scientific value of the recent Lancet study over to...former Hair Club For Growth uber-hack Stephen Moore. Stephen Moore..
Behold:Charles P. Strite, born in Minneapolis, MN, received patent #1,394,450 on October 18, 1921 for the bread-toaster. During World War I, Strite worked in a manufacturing plant in Stillwater, MN, where he became frustrated with the burned toast served in the cafeteria. Strite, determined to find...
Yglesias asks the above question in regards to the decision to announce unilateral space hegemony at exactly the same time that we're trying to secure Russian and Chinese cooperation on.
I have a new post at TAPPED up about the ludicrous fake outrage surrounding the outing of Larry Craig. See also Mona, Glenn, and Pam. Shakes defends outing in limited.