Day: February 6, 2012

Chicago-style politics means you don’t bring a knife to a gunfight IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-30240686726_0b1ec105c4_b

Chicago-style politics means you don’t bring a knife to a gunfight

Erik Kain February 6, 2012

I’m so tired of buzz-phrases repeated endlessly on cable news so that people who are angry and...

Our Unlovable Constitution IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-thyssen.view-of-naarden-2

Our Unlovable Constitution

Tim Kowal February 6, 2012

A new study by David S. Law and Mila Versteeg concludes that the world’s democracies are no...

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Pull Up a Chair Y’all

Mike Dwyer February 6, 2012

Hey Gents! Not to toot our horn, but toot toot. Check out #3 on this Zagat guide...

Against Art Relativism… or, If You Ever Wanted To Call Me An Elitist Snob, Here’s Your Chance IFRL-NaPP-Asia-Yoshitoshi-SleepingDemon

Against Art Relativism… or, If You Ever Wanted To Call Me An Elitist Snob, Here’s Your Chance

Tod Kelly February 6, 2012

In Sam’s recent post on snobbery, one of the more interesting threads had to do with what...

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Madonna: Always Relevant

Mark of New Jersey February 6, 2012

Seeing as I disliked both teams in The Big Game equally, I was unusually interested in the...

At My Real Job: What Is Due Process? IFRL-TLC-Scenery-vlad-busuioc-116873-unsplash

At My Real Job: What Is Due Process?

Jason Kuznicki February 6, 2012

The U.S. Constitution is full of terms of art — short legal phrases with deep implications and...

Jaybird on US Department of Education Announces that it is Restarting Loan CollectionRo Khanna is now tweeting about it: 5.3M borrowers are in default on their federal student loans. Re…
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025If we want to play the "well, now we're haggling" game, we're quickly going to be finding ourselves…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on Less Than a Decade Prior to the MPAAInteresting. Thank you.
Dark Matter in reply to North on US Department of Education Announces that it is Restarting Loan Collectioneviscerated the Dept. of Education’s staffing and thus have eviscerated said Dept’s ability to colle…
LeeEsq in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" seems to be some…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on US Department of Education Announces that it is Restarting Loan CollectionNot giving loans to people who we're pretty sure won't be able to pay them back is a good thing, not…
Jaybird on Less Than a Decade Prior to the MPAAI'm guessing that, maybe, this was "The Actor's Children". Here, check this out: That's kind of clos…
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Where are the people asking where are the free-speech absolutists now now?
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on US Department of Education Announces that it is Restarting Loan Collection"That's why you shouldn't give them a mortgage's worth of debt without the ability to pay it off aft…
LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Cornell cancels R&B singer Kehlani Parrish for anti-Semitism: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23…

Day: February 6, 2012

Chicago-style politics means you don’t bring a knife to a gunfight

Our Unlovable Constitution

Pull Up a Chair Y’all

Against Art Relativism… or, If You Ever Wanted To Call Me An Elitist Snob, Here’s Your Chance

Madonna: Always Relevant

At My Real Job: What Is Due Process?

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