Micro-Trog

The Troglodyte's tumble log...

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April 5
Why batters get hit

George Will’s discussion of Jason Turbow’s “The Baseball Codes” about the game’s unwritten rules in honor of Opening Day.
March 31
Delany calls larger tournament 'probable'

The Big Ten commissioner indicates the NCAA cannot leave well enough alone. Doug Gottlieb (former ‘Poke) gets it right on not expanding the basketball tournament, with a point that is not…
March 30
'RapeLay' video game goes viral amid outrage

Whether the result of moral confusion, or a necessary evil of the freedoms of the internet, or both, dehumanizing women still plays.
March 26
How the Left fakes the hate

Did happiness on the left die with Paul Wellstone? What was once worth a chuckle when it lived as Bush Derangement Syndrome, has now become tiresome with its manufactured state of projection.
March 24
More Greenland ice melts faster

If the president is as successful with delivering his health care promises as he was to have been with the recovery from glacial melting the instant he was elected, presumably because Nature…
March 23
The health bill's collateral damage

The first of many such stories as to how Obamacare falls short of the hype, now that we get to find what was in the bill because it was passed.
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The future of politics lies with women

It is hard to refute the increasing influence of women on politics given the demographic trends in the West alone. However, to assume there is a monolithic leftist bloc waiting to tapped as…
March 21
Twins agree to terms with Joe Mauer

Making good on their implicit promise to build a winner now that they have their new stadium, the Twins quelled a slowly building anxiety and got a little bit of a hometown discount to boot. Now…
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Acorn on brink of bankruptcy, officials say

We can only hope this is the end for Acorn. Professional activists have a way of surviving, so some form of reincarnation is likely.
March 18
Is food the new sex?

That there is a relationship between the human experiences of food and sex is a common sense statement. What is curious, as both have come into abundance in the West and the progressive view on…
March 16
US credit rating at risk, Moody's warns

Here is a way Obamacare could get aborted: All that pre-collection goes to cover escalating debt payments, if the rosy recovery scenarios don’t play out. How long then until the executive branch…
March 15
Solar sector's long-term outlook is far from sunny

With solar being a low-density energy source, the need for innovation in not in the novelty of the technology, but in the reduction in cost and increase in scalability. This means that the…
March 10
Waterboarding for dummies

Free tip: If a technique can cause “physical fatigue or psychological resignation” to the point that a detainee will try to let himself die during the next time it is applied, then that is a…
March 8
Abortion and race: a complicated problem

It does not take a freakish economist to recognize that ignoring the obvious leads to disproportionate negative consequences.

March 5
The Culture Project unveiled

Several years in the making, arguably before Phil Lawler’s current effort began, CatholicCulture.org announces it is ready for prime time.