Archive: August 5, 2007 - August 11, 2007
John McQuaid: Rebuttal of Outlook Rebuttal
John McQuaid, author of "The Can't Do Nation" story in Outlook, has obliged us with an excellent rebuttal to my rebuttal (McQuaid's comments in italic): It's nice to be so amusingly fisked. Here are a few thoughts in response....
By | August 10, 2007; 9:01 AM ET | Comments (412)
Outlook Rebuttal: America Still Can Do
America isn't so much a Can't-Do Nation as a Won't-Do Nation.
By | August 9, 2007; 7:03 AM ET | Comments (280)
The Home Run Champion of the Steroid Era
I watched the first two at-bats, a double and a single, both smashed hard, and you didn't have to be Kreskin to know that Bonds was going to break the record momentarily, but I went to bed and missed...
By | August 8, 2007; 7:34 AM ET | Comments (233)
Pleistocene Megafauna Re-wilding Makes Me Nervous
Now comes a new, and I think rather rash, suggestion: Replace the extinct megafauna that once roamed the American West, back in the Pleistocene. We're talking lions, camels, elephants, cheetahs, and so on.
By | August 7, 2007; 6:26 AM ET | Comments (187)
Hank Aaron: Unsurpassed
Baseball is an easy game: All you need is an open field, a bat, a ball, a couple of gloves, a syringe, some Deca Durabolin, some Winstrol, some human growth hormone, some testosterone decanoate, some norbolethone, some trenbolone and some of the fertility drug Clomid.
By | August 5, 2007; 11:25 AM ET | Comments (167)
