I was a few hundred words into my opus on psychological egoism and then I read Carson Cistulli's DRB Annual intro and I deleted the entire thing. Inadequacy is a horrible feeling and a production killer - ask Dioner. So instead of that, here's a post that only exists to pimp the annual. Last time before the 19 th , I promise. My points: It's not finalized, but we're already over 30,000 words. The final...
Dahr Jamail, author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan , reports on how the U.S. military has used anthropologists and other social scientists to further the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Report (Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t ; Adapted: The U.S. Army , Hayley Austin ) A core tenet of the Obama administration’s...
More photos » Steve Nesius - AP Browse more photos » During the season, Jeff Niemann began throwing a splitter (as documented elsewhere ), but during his final appearance of the 2009 season, he also began throwing a cutter. The Brooks Baseball pitchfx page is here and no cutters are actually recorded. Look at the slider average and max velocities however. Some pitchers do throw sliders...
Portland startup Black Tonic is offering creative professionals exactly what they need--greater control of remote creative presentations. Black Tonic presenters can modify the presentation material on-the-fly and choose in real-time what the audience sees on the presentation web page. Co-founder David Price says, "Clients see only what presenters are putting in front of them, and presenters are...
In reaction to the SCOTUS decision to allow corporations to advertise in political campaigns, a bill has been submitted in the U.S. House that will require CEOs to append "I'm So & So and I approve this message" to every ad. A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers have a response to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited corporate money to flow into elections. Reps....
A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers have a response to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited corporate money to flow into elections. Reps. David Price (D-N.C.) and Mike Castle (R-Del.) told the Huffington Post in a joint statement that they plan to introduce a bill that would force CEO's to take ownership of their company's ads. For example: "I'm Brian Moynihan, the...
Iowa Republicans are welcoming Tom Price to the state later this month. Here's the release. He is a congressman from Georgia. My brother's name is Tom Price. He lives in Illinois. He is not a congressman. David Price is a congressman from North Carolina. I live in Iowa. [...]
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Congressman David Price (D-NC) have just announced a new bill to ensure accountability under U.S. law for American contractors and...
Sorry to have been a bit quiet over these last few days, but I’m busily editing/rewriting somebody else’s book about one of America’s Founding Fathers. The project is educational, but it’s also taking a great deal of time to translate this academic prose into popular-history-style English. So for today, just a few quick hits: • I hope that the juvenile pissing match now...
And there I was thinking a sweet little love story between a couple of blue pixies on the Ewok planet might not be yet another Star Wares space parable of the pervasive militant fascism we cannot ever admit to having here… Of course not.. David Price makes the salient points: Fans of Avatar are understandably being moved by the [...]
At some point during the season I touched on Jeff Niemann and his issues holding runners on. The bad news is that Niemann was poor at holding guys all year. The good news is that at least he's not Chris Young who once allowed 44 steals without a single caught stealing (2007) and repeated the perfecto this year as 20 guys successful stole on him without a catch. Given Niemann's height and mechanics,...
ABC 13 WASHINGTON, D.C. – To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway, U.S. Senators Jim Webb (D-VA) and Mark Warner (D-VA) are joining North Carolina Senators Kay R. Hagan (D-NC) and Richard Burr (R-NC) today to introduce legislation authorizing the National Park Service to acquire up to 50,000 acres of land surrounding the historic roadway. In the House of Representatives,...
Big news in the papers this morning: EPA Secretary Lisa Jackson will be in Durham for a 1:15pm press conference this afternoon at downtown Durham's shiny new Amtrak station, where the Herald-Sun and N&O report she'll announce North Carolina as one of the winners in the rail infrastructure sweepstakes. The Obama administration is fanning out across the country to states that are receiving some of...
News release from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: Two Miami residents to serve on board of country’s oldest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights organization WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 — The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation...
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