O Crucified Tree, O Crucified Tree
What with it being The Office and War on Christmas week here at The League, I thought I would respond to Jamelle’s post on the CHRIST-mas tree (which you should definitely check out). Now...
Monthly Archive: December 2009
You’re cordially invited to The League of Ordinary Gentlemen Café
Dishes include long, overcooked courses prepared by a rotating cast of amateur chefs, a few tasty recipes submitted by a hardy band of loyal customers, half-baked appetizers littered across the sidebar, and the occasional...
Short, controversial post: War on Christmas edition
Local schools should be allowed to decide whether or not to put on Christmas pageants that include the birth of Jesus Christ, the three wisemen, Mary, Joseph, and the whole nativity event.
The Office, Individualism, and the American Dream
Will has a good response to Jamelle’s reaction to The Office. Both posts got me thinking. Jamelle mentions ambition, and being “an ambitious guy” in his post. That’s key. Will mentions being a little...
The War on Pluralism Christmas
(cross-posted from the United States of Jamerica) This is a little ridiculous (via Dara’s Google Reader feed): Boss Creations, a new holiday decor company, has introduced the new “CHRIST-mas” Tree, featuring the unique trait...
The “Practical Christianity” of the Welfare State
Via First Things, The Acton Institute’s PowerBlog discusses the Christian origins of the welfare state: The church helped to bring about the welfare state in two ways. First, the Church embodied the idea of...
Breaking up is hard to do
Good stuff on breaking up the banks from The Baseline Scenario. I find the idea of hard GDP caps on bank growth pretty attractive, both because this avoids another layer of needlessly complex financial...
The Sound of Settling
A few days ago, Jamelle took a shot at “The Office”: It is actively painful to watch clueless mediocrities trudge through their jobs animated by little more than their mutual disdain and acrimony. And...
“Racism.” As Defined by Clueless Conservatives
(cross-posted from the United States of Jamerica) Patterico, a conservative blogger, describes his “pontifications” as “harangues that make sense.” Assuming the definition of sense has remained relatively constant, this can’t possibly be the case. ...
Climate Change and the Plague
An interesting nugget from The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire [page 91]: Climatology is now infected by partisan polemics, but ice core studies that show rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere over...
Population-centric=Tribal-centric
Elrod at The Moderate Voice, writing in response to criticisms of Obama’s Afghanistan strategy for setting a withdrawal date, argues: (h/t Matt Duss at WonkRoom): Quite simply, the Taliban does not have the luxury...
Sweet, sweet nostalgia
Ever lamented J-Kwon’s lack of musical staying power or the inexplicably short career of S Club Seven? Billboard’s list of the decade’s most popular one-hit wonders may not put either act back on the...
Harvard as Hogwarts?
I’m a few years removed from the college admissions process, but this is a pretty novel selling point.
“For one, the point is clearly made that the ‘master ring’, the so-called ‘one ring to rule them all’, is actually a rather elaborate justification for preemptive war on Mordor. “
I missed this the first go-round, but McSweeney’s parody of Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky on The Lord of the Rings is pretty funny.
The Analytical Rigor of Racists
On the fringes of the internet, you often hear that the science of hereditary racial differences is settled, that racial equality is a convenient fiction that doesn’t stand up to real scrutiny. So you’ll...
War Is Politics By Other Means
Scott’s recent post on President Obama’s decision re: Afghanistan is worth the read. He makes a number of very interesting points, but I’m not quite sure I get this part. Scott quotes the following...
Best Conspiracy Theory Ever
Tennessee Mayor accuses Obama of deliberately preempting “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in his speech at West Point because he’s “a secret Muslim.”
