Monthly Archive: November 2011

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 –...

Having read this post by Ioz, a friend asked me a question that I didn’t know the answer to. Let’s say that you took a bottle of wine, removed one of the glasses of...

So, League, let me ask you… If you could ask any of the candidates anything in tonight’s debate and know that you’d get an honest answer, what questions would you ask, and to which...

E.D. thinks that, contrary to what many fear, a President Romney would not be a puppet on so many Tea Party Congressman’s strings: Why would Romney, unlike virtually every other president in recent history,...

Rule #1:  If someone is making an action figure based on your real-life hero, you can’t bitch about it not being lifelike enough.  It’s a freaking action figure.  Just smile and be grateful. Rule...

The last few days have seen a number of posts (most of ’em here, one external) on education, employment, STEM vs. Other Fields of Study, and the like, where various members of the League...

Said nobody.

One of the more curious things that the Occupy Wall Street phenomena has wrought has been making those not within the Occupy tribe channel my dad circa 1968. One of the memes in the...

While it’s long been conventional wisdom on the Left that the Republican Party is doing whatever it can to ensure the economy stays horrid just long enough for the President to lose his reelection...

Currently, the Soul Pepper Theatre in Toronto’s distillery district is staging Ibsen’s Ghosts; thus one can safely dissect the hypocrisies of the 19th century Norwegian bourgeoisie in the happy company of the 21st century...

I have a long(ish) piece up at Forbes asking liberals to take the civil liberties record of Barack Obama more seriously – I’m basically riffing off of this excellent piece by Conor Friedersdorf at The...

Blunt Object writes: Looking at Alex Tabarrok’s data, it seems that (a) college enrollment is up by about 50% over the past 25 years, and (b) most of the increase has come in “soft”...

A really fascinating article from The Atlantic on how our deportation policies are making our domestic gang problem worse. There’s enough in here to satisfy everybody’s existing ideas on immigration law and immigrants themselves.

At his Forbes digs, Erik mounts what he claims is a defense of cheap wine and dismisses wine snobbery, quoting with approval this passage from Slate’s Brian Palmer: Not long ago, American wine-buying habits...

Any ideas on how the League should go about developing (or contracting out the development of) an app for iPhone/iPad/Android, etc.?