I keep saying The Weekly Standard needs a blog. And here’s why. This observation comes from the latest WS “Scrapbook,” under the heading “Massacre? What Massacre?” (subscriber’s only): The Scrapbook became rather suspicious when it heard Hasan Abdel Rahman, the chief Palestinian representative to the United States, tell Fox’s ‘Hannity Colmes’ last week that, with regard to the fighting in Jenin, ‘I never said it was a massacre.’ As everyone

Courtesy of my wife, who found this while she should have been working: “Biggest Cheaters in Baseball.” I gotta admit, I’d never even heard of the Maury Wills incident before today. Related: Wonder what Bump Wills is up to these days…?

Well, Jonah may not recognize one when he sees it, but Stanley Kurtz kinda does… Here, in the service of discussing the Andrew Sullivan-New York Times conflict, Kurtz gives a nod to the blog: Not many folks could get themselves booted out of the pages of The New Republic and the New York Times and still prosper as a pundit, but Andrew Sullivan is no ordinary fellow. Howard Kurtz may

Well, Jonah may not recognize one when he sees it, but Stanley Kurtz kinda does… Here, in the service of discussing the Andrew Sullivan-New York Times conflict, Kurtz gives a nod to the blog: Not many folks could get themselves booted out of the pages of The New Republic and the New York Times and still prosper as a pundit, but Andrew Sullivan is no ordinary fellow. Howard Kurtz may

Writing in Reason,* Cathy Young reports that evidence is once again necessary for a rape conviction at Harvard. Welcome back to America, Crimson Tide. We missed you! From “Unwanted Sex: A turning tide on date rape“: The wars over campus date rape are no longer in the headlines, but the latest news from this front is sure to get some attention. Harvard has adopted a new policy under which sexual

Jonah Goldberg’s latest NRO column, “In Defense of Elitism,” concludes with these apt observations: Right now, the word-elite of journalists and academics are the ones asking, ‘Who are we to judge?’ This elite is the one incapable of discerning the difference between a bone through the nose and the moon launch. It is this elite which says that the canon isn’t worth reading; that the Constitution is a fig leaf

I’m having a good morning. First, I get to pontificate a bit about baseball (thanks for the prompt, Welch), and now this: Rush has released a new “album,” Vapor Trails! Rush! Now, if Valerie Bertinelli shows up at my door in Daisy Duke-cutoffs and a wet t-shirt, asking to use my shower, I can call it a day…

I’m having a good morning. First, I get to pontificate a bit about baseball (thanks for the prompt, Welch), and now this: Rush has released a new “album,” Vapor Trails! Rush! Now, if Valerie Bertinelli shows up at my door in Daisy Duke-cutoffs and a wet t-shirt, asking to use my shower, I can call it a day…

Nice Matt Welch Reason column on the Cuba embargo and its cultural casualties — including Cuban baseball historian Severo Nieto, whose decades-long work remains unpublished. (Incidentally, Luis Tiant’s just not Hall of Fame material. He was good, sure, but given the caliber of his contemporaries since inducted to Cooperstown — Palmer, Ryan, Seaver, Carlton, Sutton, Niekro, G. Perry, Hunter, Drysdale, Koufax, Bunning — Tiant doesn’t quite make the cut. …Though

Nice Matt Welch Reason column on the Cuba embargo and its cultural casualties — including Cuban baseball historian Severo Nieto, whose decades-long work remains unpublished. (Incidentally, Luis Tiant’s just not Hall of Fame material. He was good, sure, but given the caliber of his contemporaries since inducted to Cooperstown — Palmer, Ryan, Seaver, Carlton, Sutton, Niekro, G. Perry, Hunter, Drysdale, Koufax, Bunning — Tiant doesn’t quite make the cut. …Though