~by RTod Two weeks ago I wrote a guest post for the League; it essentially had two...
Month: July 2011
Good: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution Tuesday calling for...
Ta-Nehisi Coates continues to wonder about the relationships between and among war, tragedy, and justice: There’s a...
~by Koz A Debt Limit Deal Is Not Inevitable We all know the pressures the various actors...
Okay now look. I don’t like raising taxes. I don’t even like taxes in the first place....
In the comments to one of the several posts around here on the appalling terrorist attacks in...
Because I find less wrong with supporting John McCain in 2008 than seceding in order to protect...
~by Shawn Gude One of the joys of intellectual development is having one’s views challenged and, if...
1) I ask whether a faster SWAT response would have saved lives, and suggest that better trained...
“An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.” – Jose Ortega y Gasset,...
Corey Maye, finally released from prison, enjoying his kids.
I’m a little late to this but I want to add a few words about a post...
Thoreau sums up essentially what I’ve been thinking the past couple of days. When the attacks first...
I don’t know about you guys, but I’d like to talk about something other than the Norway...
I don’t know about y’all, but it’s been a long time since I’ve had to exert myself...
However its boundaries may be constituted, a nation [is] a presumptive locus of sovereignty, and it has...
So it turns out the Oslo killings were carried out by a white Norwegian guy who is...
~by RTod Borders has announced that it is closing it’s doors and beginning liquidation; this of...
(I’m writing about Gillian Welch’s The Harrow and the Harvest until I feel like stopping. But really, you should listen...
Live coverage of the explosions and shootings going on in Norway. These appear to be jihadist attacks....
