One thing the Observer left out of its soccer piece yesterday was internationalism. Soccer doesn’t just license Anglophilia; if you’re a lefty, it’s a giant third world bath. You get to pull for Africans. Thus the Cinderella of the 2006…
The AP reports that Bill Clinton made $7.5 million last year in speeches. I’ve touched on Clinton’s post-presidential career before. Here is a related criticism, coming from neocon David Frum, in his book The Right Man, in the context of…
I do my best to keep abreast of a booming field in literary production, Spam bylines. Here are the latest entries for the next Humberto Long Award for Nom-de-Spam: Hollis Champion Maureen Fink Gordon Dominguez Zachary Holmes Megan Woodard
Commenter Miriam Reik points out a significant hole in my reporting from Newport yesterday: I wish Weiss had reported the answer given to the Lt. Commander’s question about “how the Palestinians can combat the Israelis’ foreign influence in the United…
Dr. Mearsheimer In his speech at the University of Chicago commencement last weekend, Mayor Bloomberg did a most honorable thing, and, in attacking political correctness, praised the University for its support of John Mearsheimer. Here’s the quote: From the University’s…
Lizzy Ratner has a smart funny piece in the new Observer about Jews who like soccer. Only the timing hurts: the best game today is Germany vs. Poland. I have to say it makes my sportsloving scrotum rather shy and…
Harvard’s Stephen Walt, being taped by a midshipman The reason I went to the Naval War College was to hear Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, authors of the controversial paper on the Israel lobby, address an audience of officers and…
During the (thrilling) Tunisia-Saudi Arabia match, the cameramen picked out some (hot) uncovered chicks in the stands pulling for the team from the country that gave us (let us not forget) Mohammed Atta.
The piling up of goals at the World Cup—Spain!—clarifies the pattern of scoring pointed to before here. The revised totals, as of this morning: Goals in first “quarter” (22.5 minutes): 9 Second quarter: 10 Third quarter: 3 Fourth: 12 This…