Day: August 25, 2016

Why Americans Don’t Play Soccer, and Everyone Else Does: Part I EPL-vs-NFL

Why Americans Don’t Play Soccer, and Everyone Else Does: Part I

Richard Hershberger August 25, 2016

American Exceptionalism (sports edition)

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Presidential Mortality

Will Truman August 25, 2016

With no natural deaths in 70 years, maybe we worry a little too much about how old...

How William Shatner Brought Down International Communism 4922578504_9438f38364_b_captain-kirk

How William Shatner Brought Down International Communism

Jat August 25, 2016

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Gypsy Blancharde Is In Jail For Killing Her Mother

Sam Wilkinson August 25, 2016

Dee Dee Blancharde abused her daughter Gypsy for more than two decades. She did so...

Morning Ed: United States {2016.08.25.Th} morninged-glasses

Morning Ed: United States {2016.08.25.Th}

Will Truman August 25, 2016

Poverty, criminals, and racism.

Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25On the success of Don't Rank Cuomo: “In these troubled times we live in, we need that.” Dawn Phelps,…
Philip H in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25They “looked dominant” which was the point. You can’t “win” negotiations by looking “weak” and diplo…
Philip H in reply to Slade the Leveller on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaNeither are prevailing wages in construction or agricultural work. But those workforces are being ru…
InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25Initial reports are that the strikes only set the Iranian program back by months. What a disaster. N…
Jaybird in reply to DensityDuck on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreOne point that strikes me as obvious is that continuing to fail, enough times, presents identically…
Jaybird in reply to John Puccio on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?From what I understand, the original pitch for Stranger Things was a bunch of clips from a half doze…
DensityDuck in reply to Jaybird on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreThere are plenty who consider "we tried and failed" to be morally justifiable in a way that "we didn…
John Puccio in reply to Andrew Donaldson on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?Similar to Band of Brothers.
Slade the Leveller on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaWe had to have a plumber out yesterday evening because some numbnuts in an apartment above us has be…
Philip H on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaAt 4% unemployment nationally these jobs will remain difficult to fill.