This is better foreign policy, but not by much

The Economist, on Monday, wrote about a proposed plan for the US in Iraq. Happily, it's better than the administration's present policy of doing nothing. It's excessively sanguine about the Iraqi army's chances -- yes, it's much larger than ISIS, but the US Army was much larger than the NVA and Viet Cong too -- but,…

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So long, Vince Young and Tony Gwynn

Tony Gwynn and Vince Young played completely different positions for completely different teams in completely different sports. They are almost polar opposites for each other, in the public mind: Tony Gwynn was the kind of player that everyone loved, gave "110%," a Hall of Famer. A tremendous all around player (although dWAR doesn't like his…