Friday, October 19, 2012

Read Stuff, You Should

Happy Birthday to Al Gallagher, 67. Dirty Al Gallagher; or, as I always think of him, Alan Mitchell Edward George Patrick Henry Gallagher. Hmmm...first of all, I haven't looked him up for a while, and I'm sort of shocked that he three years with the Giants (plus one with the Angels). One of the illusions of youth; he lasted forever, to me. Probably because baseball began in 1969-1970 for me (1970 was his rookie year) as something I really followed, so at that point who knows which guys had been around for a while and which were brand new. Well, I mean, you learn soon enough about Willie Mays, but...I mean obviously at some point I knew how long he had been around, but it just isn't the same. More on Gallagher: what happened, anyway? Ages 24 and 25 he wasn't anything special, but he was okay, and then splat - I guess he was one of the many things that went wrong in 1972. One more note about a guy who very few of you care about: he managed in the independent leagues beginning in 1995, and continuing all the way up through 2010.

OK, that was long. On the the good stuff

1. I like this Jared Bernstein post about blogs and evidence.

2. Sarah Posner on Dinish D'Souza (a few hours before he lost his day job).

3. Great Ta-Nehisi Coates post...oh, just read it.

4. And Andrew Gelman on partisanship and charity

3 comments:

  1. I read that TNC post yesterday, and I swear I thought to myself, "This is so incredibly good, I wonder why Jonathan didn't put it in 'Read Stuff, You Should.'"

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  2. JB, I'll be interested to know if you have anything to add to Greg Sargent's comments on the well-done Politico piece on intra-GOP Senate nomination troubles. (Would that Politico always dedicated itself to this sort of substantive, deeply politics-focused reporting!):
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/in-2013-a-more-progressive-senate/2012/10/18/da5e5192-1954-11e2-bd10-5ff056538b7c_blog.html
    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82563.html

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  3. Yes, that was a great post. Obama's a failure - you're just a racist.

    I wonder how long before people realize D'souza is being read out because he is going back to brown.

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