Daily Archives: January 9, 2002

They’ve obviously never watched NYC pedestrians

Jonathan Chait tackles the conventional wisdom in college football that players from Southern schools are faster than players from Northern schools. Continue reading

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Resolutions redux

Now that I’ve started on my pledge to write more, I suppose I can’t ignore my other annual New Year’s resolution, which is to lose weight by eating better and exercising more. I could bore you by talking about how … Continue reading Continue reading

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Yes, but does he have hairy feet?

Andrew Sullivan recently wrote a piece that compares President Bush to Frodo from Lord of the Rings. This prompted a reader to write in and claim that Bush is really Sam Gamgee: Bush is most clearly NOT Frodo…Frodo has the … Continue reading Continue reading

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