Pray for Partisanship
Yesterday, Peter Diamond withdrew his nomination for a position on the Federal Reserve’s seven-seat Board of Governors. Why? Because it became increasingly clear that he could not overcome the
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Leisure Time
summer The Sporting Life is also about inactivity. It’s not just about what you do, it’s also about what you don’t do. For starters, you don’t shiver. I’ll take sweating over shivering any day. You also don’t wear a lot of clothes. Less is better. And while yours truly isn’t going to end up on a GQ cover any time soon, that’s not going to stop me from wearing shorts and going shirtless half the time. I need me a little color.
A Righteous Thing
1960s. Men like Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, Frank Robinson, and Brooks Robinson had their accomplishments recited and their stories told. I still remember the title of the chapter on Brock, then the all-time steals king: “Every Walk’s a Two Bagger.” When I got the book, I was already familiar with most of the names it heralded. But I was still young and there were a few strangers staring back at me from the pages. One of them had an ominous name: Harmon Killebrew.
Folding Trump
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece on Donald Trump after he got his head handed to him by President Obama and Seth Meyers of all people at the Washington Correspondents’ Dinner. However, just before I was going to post it, U.S. Navy SEALS assassinated Osama bin Laden. Suddenly there