I was seven years old when Derek Jeter played his first game at shortstop for the New York Yankees—by the time his new contract ends I will be at least 26. It’s easy to gloss over those numbers at first because it seems like trivia, but it’s worth letting them sink in. To put these [...]
Archive for January, 2011
3 Jan
Hindsight 2010: Shots of the Year
It was a bad shot. That’s really where you have to start. It was pretty much indefensibly bad. Ali Farokhmanesh cannot plausibly argue that it was wise to take that three-pointer from the right wing with 37 seconds on the game clock, 30 on the shot clock, and his Northern Iowa Panthers up one on [...]
3 Jan
Monday Medley
What we read while calling Klondike 5-3226… New York Magazine had a strong week, assessing our current libertarian moment, the Columbia (University) drug circle, and, of course, eats. Reason, mentioned multiple times in the libertarian moment article, comments on it. Reason also directs us to an exchange between Judge Alex Kozinski and libertarian writer (and [...]
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