I haven’t checked but I would bet that a number of bloggers and sports fans are upset by this Charles P. Pierce attack piece on Michael Jordan posted at Slate. Here is Pierce: Michael Jordan was a great player. He also was a great salesman. And that was all he ever was, and that seems to [...]
It will come as no surprise to anyone that I am a big fan of all things National Review. I read the magazine, surf the website, and even write for them occasionally. Anytime an NRO or NRODT person visits the state I travel to listen to them speak and talk to them afterword. I have [...]
**Cross posted to Collected Miscellany** Was Abe Lincoln gay? A new book – The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln by C.A. Tripp – has made this the subject of heated debate of late. Here are a few links if the subject interests you: – Here is Richard Brookhiser in the NYTBR: The prose is both [...]
Was Abe Lincoln gay? A new book – The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln by C.A. Tripp – has made this the subject of heated debate of late. Here are a few links if the subject interests you: – Here is Richard Brookhiser in the NYTBR: The prose is both jumpy and lifeless, like a [...]
As you might have guessed, Maud Newton and I don’t see eye to eye on a lot of political or cultural issues. I regularly read her site, however, because she is smart and funny and posts interesting links. But I do think she is a little too susceptible to the “conservatives are destroying the world” [...]