the inevitability dodge
In the comments to ED’s post, Roland Dodds writes “First of all, the ‘meddling’ the United States engages in is the very thing any unipolar (or hegemonic) power would pursue”. Well, you might say...
Monthly Archive: February 2009
the democracy fallacy
Here’s a line of reasoning I simply can’t follow: The Islamic world is nothing like the Western world. We have few, if any, of the same values and virtually no historical commonality save our...
Unanswered Questions
I wanted to draw attention to this post over at William Randolph’s blog. He has a pretty good summation of our recent series on atheism, and takes the discussion one step further: What is...
A Quick Note on A Rigged Game
Freddie writes: The more that one side or the other plugs their ears and refuses to compromise, the less incentive there is to include their concerns– or the concerns of their constituents– at all....
Idealism with a Sword
Scott, remarking on the improving conditions in Iraq, asks: If this is a trend that continues and increasingly results in a lowering of violence that both adds to the stability of Iraq and enables...
A Happy BAD Day
I interrupt the League’s normal conversational blogging to participate in a grand, two year old tradition of the blogosphere: Blogroll Amnesty Day. The story of the tradition is best told by others, most notably...
Falsifying the Unfalsifiable
Reading through this whole, excellent series on atheism, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, etc. has been an extremely worthwhile experience. As I wrote in the comments to Chris’ post (you have no idea how much...
Tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury…
Much has been made recently of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, variations on the teapot analogy, and the Best-selling Atheist Bookseller’s Club. I’m not sure exactly why so much has been made of this topic,...
In defense of snark
I have to disagree with many of the recent responses to Freddie’s attack on Robert Stacy McCain, namely his use of snark and less than kind words on the subject of Palin-worship, the recent...
Casino Politics
In response to Freddie, Ross Douthat writes: The issue is the risk the Democrats are taking, period, by spending enormous sums that aren’t obviously justified by the current crisis, at the start of an...
Thomas Aquinas Meets The Flying Spaghetti Monster
As the League’s resident theological student, I have been a bit loathe to enter the atheism/spaghetti monster/god or no god (non)debate. Perhaps the best comment (imo) came from James Williams in the original thread...
Good show Cardinals…
I thought they put up a damn good fight, and it made for an incredibly intense Super Bowl. Alas, my team could not quite pull it off tonight…still, we in Arizona are proud of...
eating my vegetables
So you should follow Scott’s lead and read Sonny Bunch here… I have been engaged in a little pissing contest with him in his comments section. I really shouldn’t. Look, obviously, I disagree with...
Sunday Poem
P The Salt of the Sea by Philip Primeau Above the eastern sill of sky, at early tide, arrives the sun to light the sea. Its ruddy blood from heaven spills and fills the...
not everyone who says he’s your friend is your friend
So here’s my dilemma. Real partisanship, I mean real, nasty, cut-off-the-country’s-nose-to-spite-the-other-side’s-face partisanship, can be fun, as the average college Republican can tell you. But among it’s many, many downsides is the fact that you...
