Daily Archive: November 10, 2011

  Now I know that you’re sitting there deep in your velvet seats and you’re thinking “Uh, he’s up there saying something that he thinks about, but I’ll never have to sing that song.”...

Inevitably meme, enter stage right: Rick Perry’s remarkable meltdown in front of millions of people on national television Wednesday night adds to the growing sense of inevitability for Mitt Romney — if only because...

On January 23rd, 1941, Ory and Ethel (Lettie) Freeland signed the following: “We the undersigned, being the father and mother of Maurice H. Freeland, a minor, an applicant for enlistment in the United States...

My first love, as a kid, was baseball. No, strike that, that’s not quite right. My first love, as a kid, was the Los Angeles Dodgers. I grew up in what was to be...

I found Ryan Bonneville’s post this morning on the horrible events at Penn State to be highly appropriate.  Especially this: I don’t know what the solution is. Taking membership in these institutions with a...

I’ve been reading with interest the recent back and forth about university education (particularly education in the arts), and whether or not it’s a consumption good, an investment in your future and whether possession...

(Photo: The exact moment when Rick Perry’s Presidential ambitions died.) Some quick observations about tonight’s debate: Observation #1 – Anti-Government Rhetoric Is Apparently Just That – Rhetoric If there was one universal constant –...