Alumni News: Mossback Farm
I got an invitation to my twentieth high school reunion today. (That’s a good reason to freak out if ever I heard one.) There was some interesting news – a friend of mine from way back when has become an… Continue Reading
Month: April 2008
Fantasy Baseball Before A Short-Rostered Supreme Court
As the baseball season begins, it’s with some interest that I note that the Supreme Court has granted certioarai in the case of CBC Distribution v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media. This case challenges the right of a private company… Continue Reading
The Unevolved Jonah Goldberg
In today’s Fish Wrapper, I’m tempted to think that someone has run an April Fool’s joke. Jonah Goldberg attacks the Darwin Fish. The reason? He just watched the recently banned anti-Muslim movie Fitna and thinks that evolution advocates are smug… Continue Reading
Weekends Are Light
The past couple of weekends, I haven’t blogged at all. Too busy, then too lazy. Mowing the lawn consumes energy and time. Then other stuff has to get done that there’s no time for during the work week, taking care… Continue Reading
DNC Credentials Committee Explained
Political rules junkies will love this. It gets astonishingly intricate. Read the comments — Dean’s selection to this committee was already made months ago, and they’re all superdelegates already. It basically comes down to whoever has the most pledged delegates… Continue Reading
There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Out Of Here
Friday, 4-4. Season Four. Then there will be no more. Get your geek on. This creature feature, by the way, looks too cheesy to even be real. Makes me really miss my TV.
Is There A Liquidation Market For This Stuff?
Spungen wrote about this a few days ago. But my audience is a little different than hers (although there is some overlap) so maybe Readers here can come up with their own ideas. A while back, the firm got a… Continue Reading
Superdelegate Edge
Überfrau Hillary Clinton has always had the advantage of what I’ve periodically called the “inside game” — the lists of fundraising sources grown since 1989 when Bill took over the Democratic Leadership Conference; the myriad of favors personally owed to… Continue Reading
We Are Not All Becoming Muslims So Calm Down Already
There are sure to be lots of people who read this bit of demographic news and react in a panic. (Gates of Vienna, I’m looking at you.) But there’s no reason to panic at all. RTFA and you will find… Continue Reading
Ask A Rabbi
A rabbi from a conservative congregation asks (and answers) a relatively simple question: What would you say… to an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor who was unmoving in his conviction that all Germans were evil? What would you say to this person,… Continue Reading