According to this story, that’s what happened.
The most disturbing aspect of Deadspin’s account is that apparently the NBA didn’t claim that particular statements in the book were inaccurate. (Indeed it’s not clear that anyone in the league office has even seen a copy of the book). The league’s lawyers simply told Random House that if it went ahead with the book’s publication the league would file a libel suit. Obviously Random House shouldn’t be publishing libelous material, but a book like this doesn’t get to within a month of publication at a major publisher without everything in it being vetted by the publisher’s legal department.
We all hear the stories every day. Suddenly, someone you never heard of has just become an overnight millionaire by having a great idea about doing something online. But for every person we hear about, there are literally hundreds and thousands of people trying to make money online and failing badly! What does that one person know that the others dont? Now you too can find out. These are the top five reasons why people fail.
This wouldn’t even be debatable. The idea that Senators who vote to filibuster major initiatives of the party — filibusters that are highly deleterious not only on the policy merits and for democracy but politically — should be entitled to special policy-making privileges from the party is absurd. (For Lieberman, of course, this doesn’t go far enough; his office should be transferred to a broom closet somewhere in Camden.) It should also be noted that while there may be certain risks in alienating Senators in red states, this doesn’t apply at all to Lieberman. Read the rest of this entry »
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“Motivation” — already one of the most useless words in the language — was apparently dragged into the woods and shot yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
The market was much higher in early trading, but the S&P 500 ran into resistance again near the 1090 level, and stocks have pulled back considerably from there such that the major indexes are now back in negative territory on the day.
Since people seemed to like the previous pedagogical post, here’s a link to what I’m doing in class tomorrow. (Short version: I inform my students they’re all murderers, they rebel, I put them in their place, etc.) Read the rest of this entry »
It is a moment most parents look forward to with anticipation and dread; that moment when their son or daughter heads off for college. There are the worries that have plagued parents for generations like will my child get good grades? Other worries that parents have can vary, but they usually go along the lines of will my child enjoy the college experience, will they be able to carry the heavy study load and will they be able to fit in a part time job. All of these things and more our children carry with them. They balance all this responsibility and have to balance it so that they dont suffer burn-out or falling grades. In these economic times, more parents are unable to help their children with the expenses of college. The burden on our college bound children has grown. Is there anything that can be done to ease this, even a little bit?
I, and several others, suggested that in the wake of Nick Griffin’s appearance on the BBC, support for his non-racist British National Party would not appreciably increase. Indeed, Andrew Rawnsley writes a scathing, at times hilarious, piece in “Comment is Free” in today’s Observer, in which he admits surprise that Griffin turned out to be “a big, blubbery wuss . . . a nervous, sweaty, shifty, amateurish and confused man, manically grinning when confronted with his back catalogue of repulsive quotes and occasionally venting bursts of incoherent nastiness.”
So, I read in the Times that Obama’s eliminated some bureaucratic hurdles by declaring the swine flu outbreak a national emergency. His decision makes sense to me, because if flu activity currently rivals its annual winter peak, this season’s peak could tower over Everest like some dread Olympus Mons. By signing the order now, Obama frees hospitals to prepare for the worst by, for example, “issu[ing] waivers expediting health care facilities’ ability to transfer patients to other locations.” Sounds logical, right? However:
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