If you ask me, I think Detroit is going to regret trading away a reliable lefty reliever come next summer. For the sake of Motown and it’s loyal baseball fans, I can only hope that Jim Leyland is keeping it real when he says the Tigers aren’t going to have a fire sale this offseason. Read More
Both Ta-Nehisi and Adam thoughtfully respond* to my post from last week about black men standing in for black people in the Dec. 1 Michael Luo New York Times story about race and unemployment. On Wednesday, Dec. 2, I had a brief Twitter conversation with Luo, who explained — as I suspected — that the Read More
Speaking of movies, I recently came across an argument somewhere (Klosterman? This American Life?) that The Truth About Cats and Dogs was the perfectly average movie. That is, everything better that Cats and Dogs is an above-average movie and any movie worse is below-average. I think there’s some merit to this argument. The first time Read More
I’m guest blogging at Alyssa Rosenberg’s (with some other fantastic bloggers) for the next 10 days or so, while she’s living it up in Cambodia. Inspired by a post from SEK, I put up a piece on Iron Man being a thoroughly mediocre film: I managed to get through the first 25 minutes on the Read More
For my design and typography nerds, and Lady Gaga fans.
Before liberals and progressives go apoplectic with rage over Obama’s decision in Afghanistan, it’s worth reminding them that progressive change — even in the best of circumstances — is grinding, difficult and never pure. And it’s that last point that’s most important.
The New York State Senate rejected marriage equality this afternoon, but it did not go down due to lack of eloquence:
Much is being made of Michael Luo’s piece in yesterday’s New York Times which explains how simply being black often hurts job seekers: Johnny R. Williams, 30, would appear to be an unlikely person to have to fret about the impact of race on his job search, with companies like JPMorgan Chase and an M.B.A. Read More
Theresa Wilitz, the culture editor at The Root and a former professional dancer, has a great piece about watching her friends die in the ’80s and ’90s from AIDS. What I didn’t know, as I was watching, was that my roommates, Darryl and Gary, were keeping a secret from me: They had just discovered that Read More
