The Hunters of Kentucky
We spent 5 hours running beagles all over the hills of Green County yesterday. The 12 gauge Ithaca I traded for last spring felt good in my hands and I was glad to have...
Daily Archive: January 23, 2012
Note on the Old Man of the Mountain
In his voyage account from the 13th century, Marco Polo tells of “the old man of the mountain” (Book I: Ch. 21), or Ala’u-‘d-Din Muhammad, one of the last rulers of the Nizari Ismailis, a...
New Blogs!
I’d like to draw your attention to the latest TWO sub-blogs to go live at The League. Jonathan McLeod is writing “The 49th” – a Canadian politics blog with an eye toward American audiences....
Can States be Moral? The Curious Case of British Abolitionists
Today dear reader, we set sail back to March 25, 1807 when the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act of 1807. What seems a piece of historical trivia is also the start of an...
Stop Censorship, Stop ACTA
I have a primer up at Forbes on a little known trade agreement, ACTA, which does all the bad stuff that SOPA threatened to do, only worse. Masked as an anti-counterfeiting treaty, ACTA threatens...
Vaka Motus
From the Pacific Voyagers website. Emphasis mine: The vakas are financed with micro-lending and built, maintained and operated by the local community. Taking pride in ownership, creates a commitment to better their villages and neighbouring islands. Whether they take...
