I think Ruud Gullit is right about the Netherlands defense. They gave Slovakia some good chances in the center of defense. They’re playing with fire if they do that against Brazil, More subjective officiating: Robin Van Persie’s studs up crunching of Radoslav Zabavnik’s leg in the 55th minute was reminiscent of Ronaldinho’s foul on Danny …
Archives for June 2010
Are You Strong Enough To Be My Man?
Lara Logan has high standards for her profession: “I mean, the question is, really, is what Gen. McChrystal and his aides are doing so egregious, that they deserved to end a career like McChrystal’s?” Logan asked. “I mean, Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has.” This is from a good Michael …
The story of modern media in one sentence
Jeffrey Golberg: Well, Ta-Nehisi takes Goldblog to the woodshed, but gently, because Ta-Nehisi is too nice a guy for that woodshed business. I’m not sure it’s fair to teen-age boys to call the Atlantic blogs a circle jerk. Update. I’m being totally unfair, the push-back here (from TNC and others) resulted in a near retraction. …
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Good News From the Supreme Court- Barely
Of course, with one more “originalist” judge just calling balls and strikes, there might have been a different outcome: A public law school did not violate the First Amendment by withdrawing recognition from a Christian student group that excluded gay and lesbian students, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a 5-to-4 decision. The case, …
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Open Thread
Didn’t get half as much done as I needed today- apparently this is the busiest time of the year for the DMV (at least in WV), because lots of tags become due on 1 July. On the the upside, I did go get some tags for Rosie for her collar (or, as my friend Jill …
Better To Burn Out
The National Tea Party Unity Convention is moving from July 15-17 to October for a number of bullshit reasons that obscure the real one — apparently, nobody wanted to come. Leave it to CNN to dutifully transcribe the bullshit reasons without applying one bit of skepticism. Here’s a good one: “The heat in Las Vegas …
Sargent Unloads
This was fun to read.