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Today’s question is for the executive director of the NHL PLayer’s Association, Bob Goodenow: LP: Mr. Goodenow, the agreement you finally reached with the NHL after your hard-line stance wiped out an entire season not only contains the hard salary cap you swore you’d never accept, it’s a cap that ESPN reports is “significantly lower than the one offered on

Friends, This morning I submitted my resignation at St. Bonaventure University. Angela and I are in the process of trying to sell the house and I have been actively pursuing employment in the Carolinas for a few weeks now. So far we have no offers on the house, and while I have been greatly encouraged by my conversations with business

Report: State employees’ lack of writing skills cost nearly $250M The Associated Press States spend nearly a quarter of a billion dollars a year on remedial writing instruction for their employees, according to a new report that says the indirect costs of sloppy writing probably hurt taxpayers even more. The National Commission on Writing, in a report to be released

Today’s question is for Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UT. LP: Senator, in 1998 you insisted (in ways that caused us to wonder how you could keep a straight face) that Kenneth Starr’s GOP-backed witch-hunt over President Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky had nothing at all to do with partisan politics or sexual morality, but that it was purely about perjury, saying

This is interesting. Apparently conservatives are warning Dubya off nominating Alberto Gonzales to replace O’Connor, whose views on abortion are “suspect.” If the base thinks Gonzo isn’t conservative enough, the next few weeks ought to really be fun. I almost feel sorry for Bush – can you imagine trying to find a candidate who’s acceptable to that crowd who won’t

We went out to the Caribbean Cafe with sirpaulsbuddy last night. The menu contained a box at the bottom of one page with the following warning: People who are allergic to seafood should avoid ordering seafood dishes. Of course, we live in a culture where this is probably something that actually does need saying, I guess….

Here’s one. Who in sports history was the greatest athlete stuck on the worst team for his/her career? This is mostly a pre-free agency question, since free agency allowed great players to escape bad franchises after a few years. A couple examples spring to mind. First was Archie Manning, a fantastic quarterback who could probably have won some championships had

sirpaulsbuddy and I decided tonight to sponsor a new competition. The task is simple enough – we’re looking for new neo-con euphemisms. Entrants are asked to take a word or term that is thoroughly negative in connotation (examples would include things like “poverty,” “rape,” “quadriplegic,” “murder,” “ignorant,” etc.) and develop a new term that neutralizes the negative connotation or, even

Oh fuck. Sandra Day O’Connor leaving Supreme Court Friday, July 1, 2005; Posted: 11:11 a.m. EDT (15:11 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court and a key swing vote on issues such as abortion and the death penalty, said Friday she is retiring. (Story.) Well, there goes the center.

Today’s question is for Washington Post reporters Peter Baker and Dan Balz. LP: Gentlemen, in a recent “analysis” you granted anonymity to a senior White House official so he/she could “speak more freely” about the administration’s Iraq “policy,” at which point the source more or less commenced regurgitating a standard talking points memo. This decision on your part shed no

So I’m down in NC, spending a few days in the 336 consulting with the mayor and sundry powerful city business leaders, golfing, and generally laying up at sirpaulsbuddy‘s crib. Long story short – after quenching our thirst at the Foothills Brewing Co. we tackled the evening’s burning question – to wit: what is the difference between the Beastie Boys

Today’s question is for the third and fourth presidents of the United States, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and the “Father of the Bill of Rights,” George Mason. LP: Gentlemen, the US Supreme Court has in recent days ruled that a government can take private property for the purpose of handing it over to another private, commercial venture, and that

Today’s question is for Good Morning America co-host Diane Sawyer. LP: Ms. Sawyer, two things were clear in your recent interview with Brad Pitt. First, all Mr. Pitt really wanted to discuss was Africa and his efforts to bring relief to the ravaged continent’s desperately poor inhabitants. Second, all you really wanted to talk about was the titillating details of

Today’s question is for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. LP: Sen. Clinton, recent polls indicate good news and bad news for your potential presidential candidacy. On the one hand, significant numbers of likely voters say they’d support your bid for the White House, but an even larger number of people say they’d sell their children into white slavery

crackmonkeyjr offers a challenge to my framing of the Brushback, arguing that the Kelo v. New London decision “did little more than uphold Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff. The ‘public use’ requirement on eminent domain has pretty much always been liberally construed.” So I did a bit of shade-tree legal research. From what I’m finding, it’s probably fair to argue