Participating in democracy is futile. Your vote, by itself, doesn’t matter. No, what you need is seven...
Month: January 2012
Conflict at the heart of Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard. Sea Org. Debbie Cook. David Miscavige. Enough said.
Boegiboe has another of his original drink recipes over at the increasingly alcoholic Slow Tuesday Night.
Yeah, sure, it’s yet another post about Ron Paul. (Perhaps you’ve heard of him?) But today’s post...
Andrew Sullivan calls out Jonathan Chait for arguing that libertarianism is inextricably linked to racism. Chait’s view,...
At the sub-blogs, we’ve had some discussion of the idea of a meetup for the League. The...
If you like offensive shoot outs and you’re not watching the Rose Bowl now, you really should....
I’ve spilled far too much ink trying to map out my politics on to the available political...
One thing that’s overlooked by those who defend Ron Paul on civil liberties grounds is Paul’s staunch...
~by Sam Wilkinson For reasons that I cannot understand, the threat posed by various conservative candidates to women’s...
I like to think of myself as a liberaltarian. I think I would qualify for the label...
Greginak comments on why the Ron Paul discussions are stupid: For one there is only so much...
The Republican Party doesn’t need its opponents to call it stupid. They call themselves that—there’s no point...
Marilynne Robinson, doing what she does [NYT], talks about books, writing, and the Bible — as well as...
Every once in a while I read a post that is so, so, so completely right that...
Quoting from James Fallows’ Dick Cheney’s Heart: “We all know the cliche about people who switch from youthful...
Surprisingly (to me, anyway), I got a fair amount of pushback from my post on the signed...
Over at the League sub-blog “Forbes”, E.D. shares Roger Ebert’s suggestions as to why movie theatregoing is...