Sunday, June 25, 2006
The Zero Sum Sport (10:36 PM) - Steven Warshawsky at the American Thinker does some thinking about why Americans don’t like soccer. I think there are some very basic explanations, like the fact that soccer is necessarily an international sport, which makes very much sense for Europe….
Dartmouth ‘Round the Blogosphere (09:06 PM) - Emily Ghods, a gal who’s just finished her freshman year here, makes note of the Dartmouth governance struggle at the blog of the New Criterion. And junior Ben Taylor at his new page, the stout Dawn Treader, also makes mention,…
The World’s Largest Philanthropic Organization Is… (08:06 PM) - Bill Gates, of course. The thirty billion dollar foundation that he his wife started, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is the most generous organization on Earth and, one can safely assume, the most efficient at doing good, at least…
A War, Like Any Other War (06:41 AM) - At some point in the last forty-eight hours the topic dominating the center and right of the political aisle became The War on the War on Terror—the major newsmedia’s penchant for not only amplifying the bad and squelching the good,…