Daily Archive: January 3, 2012

/// January 3, 2012

Happy – Hic! – New Year

Boegiboe has another of his original drink recipes over at the increasingly alcoholic Slow Tuesday Night.

/// January 3, 2012

Required Reading

Yeah, sure, it’s yet another post about Ron Paul. (Perhaps you’ve heard of him?) But today’s post by Ta-Nehisi Coates is so much more than that. It’s about the complex emotions that surround his...

/// January 3, 2012

What’s In A Label

Andrew Sullivan calls out Jonathan Chait for arguing that libertarianism is inextricably linked to racism. Chait’s view, in a nutshell, is that in practice, libertarianism is a gateway doctrine to racism: “I am sure...

/// January 3, 2012

Leaguefest 2012!

At the sub-blogs, we’ve had some discussion of the idea of a meetup for the League. The current idea being floated around is to arrange a meet-up in Las Vegas some time in May....

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