Nice <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Strange_Meeting"&gt
;Wifred Own</a> reference in the title, btw.

Posted at January 16, 2006 7:53 PM in response to The Pity of War

With his Harvard MBA he straddles said great rivalry.  
Even so, I imagine the place he's the biggest fan of is the School of the Americas.  

Posted at January 4, 2006 10:54 PM in response to First Fan

Posted at October 24, 2005 10:40 AM in response to Geography 101

<span class="Apple-style-span">"People keep telling me that whatever horrible ailment has stricken me over the past 48 hours or so is not, in fact, the dread bird flu"</span&gt<span class="Apple-style-span">
</span&gt<span class="Apple-style-span">But were you sick enough to be signed by Isiah Thomas?  </span&gt

Posted at October 9, 2005 4:31 PM in response to Disasters

I wonder if it's the discrepancy that's the problem -- the fact that you can make so much more in the private sector.  I would bet that this discrepancy is fueled by the 20-30 year trend of way overcompensating upper management coupled with the 20-30 year trend of reducing high marginal rates on the super-rich. 

Posted at September 14, 2005 2:07 PM in response to Even Worse

Once again, a post that is doubleplusgood.
The depressing thing to me is that in a democracy you can change policy but aesthetics belong to the people.  So we will have withdrawn from Iraq long before we change the security aesthetic that, for example, equates "saving the nation" with "making it difficult for you to get into a Florida Marlins game".

Posted at September 10, 2005 8:18 AM in response to Politics and Aesthetics

I remember seeing this assertion, but only now does the realization dawn that, for the Bush Administration, "international fora" = "terrorism".  
Additionally, "strategy of the weak" sounds like Niedermeyer from Animal House.  

Posted at August 3, 2005 3:04 PM in response to Another Take On The GSAVE

Larry Brown actually has been to the next level.  It is true that he is not a long-term fix; but if he makes a team on the upswing swing up farther, isn't that good?  
He reminds me of a nonalcoholic Billy Martin -- if you want to win now, he is your man.

Posted at July 26, 2005 2:34 PM in response to The Smartest Coach

I'm with you on the <a href="http://deliciouspundit.blogspot.com/2005/01/bush-73-citadel-0.htm
l">college football metaphor</a>.  If I may quote myself:
<span class="Apple-style-span">Okay, you say, but aren't the Bushies undefeated (politically)? Haven't they rolled up all opposition? Yes, but consider the opposition. The Democrats are like North Texas State or Vanderbilt -- creampuff opposition you schedule for homecoming. Or they have been. They might be a good recruiting year away from contention.</span&gt

Posted at July 12, 2005 8:01 PM in response to Rove the "System Coach"

In my own experience, it is that I hate coming up with names, so I grab whatever is handy.  
Occasionally, though, I've been in rooms where we like to give shout-outs to departed writers by naming characters after them.

Posted at July 7, 2005 11:05 PM in response to Dark Water