Monthly Archive: November 2011

The Second Apocalypse is a projected nine-book series comprised of three separate-but-connected trilogies by R. Scott Bakker. The first of those trilogies is The Prince of Nothing, which opens with the first book in...

Last week we did a kind of census to see where we all came from, in terms of what led us to the League. Mike at The Big Stick asked that we go one...

Did anyone know that Gingrich and Cain were having a mano y mano debate last night?  I had no idea.  I can’t decide whether I think the idea of two candidates having a debate...

Daniel Mendelsohn offers commentary on the problems and practice of translation not unrelated to the discussion held here a few weeks back:

[bumped to the top and the front page for more visibility – Erik] Two recent stories got me thinking about a pet project/experiment that’s been percolating in my brain for a bit now: this...

In an exchange Tuesday up on the main page, wardsmith asked me if I thought voters had a right to privacy. I smelled a rhetorical trap coming because the answer seemed so obvious —...

~by Jeremie Finck (more commonly known as North) How do you start a guest post? Damned if I know. Whist commenting on the Greek/Euro drama and the relative skills of Prime Minister Papanderou, I...

I hadn’t actually considered compiling data, but Pat’s magnificent work recently has kind of shamed me into doing so. Basically, everyone that answered either came from another blog that linked to us, followed a...

Robert Neuwirth in Foreign Policy, writing about “System D” — the unlicensed, unregulated, off-the-books world economy: System D is a slang phrase pirated from French-speaking Africa and the Caribbean. The French have a word...

I’m getting ready to throw the End-Of-Prohibition Party. So of course I’m thinking of old standards. Bear in mind that the original of this one was in 1928 in German, but didn’t make it...

Commenter John Howard Griffin writes:

The scandal is the sexual harassment.

Fellow Gentleman Tom Van Dyke recently wrote the following: For if I were an atheist member of Congress, I’d still follow GWash on the political and social utility of religion.  No big deal.  Religion,...

Greg asks, “How many people get here from Milf-o-rama.com?” (cheekily) Our referrers for the last week:

I thought we’d take Patrick’s post below and give it a much more straightforward twist. Feel free to explain your vote in the comments, but you have to vote! The poll will run for...