Monthly Archive: February 2012

When finished, the forward section of each hull on Mon Tiki will be a small stateroom with a private entrance, a single bunk, a small dresser/vanity, and additional storage under the bunk. Modest accommodations...

Today marks the end of blognado proper.  While I do hope to put up a post on Saturday and Sunday, they will be much shorter than my customary door-stopper length as I will be otherwise engaged for...

My Thursday Blognado post is a guest post at Mindless Diversions wherein I explain why I abandoned miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop, and why Warmachine is my favourite wargame.

While driving home from work today, I learned that 2005’s Stolen Valor Act was being challenged in front of the Supreme Court. If you aren’t familiar with it and you don’t feel like clicking on...

The primary lesson of George Orwell’s 1984 is that [my political opponents] are truly totalitarian in intent. The entire culture of [my political opponents] revolves around doublethink, such as [insert reference to something that...

We’ve had two really interesting comment threads today on abortion-related posts written by Will Truman and myself. I remarked, as did commenter Chris, that both have been remarkably civil. Both posts were lengthy and...

Weekly Standard‘s Jay Cost is bemoaning the dissolution of the old, pre-McGovern system of Party organization, when both Parties, were run by a hierarchical network of wise men and power brokers. Ever since the...

Abortion map.

I’ve set up a Twitter account that should tweet out every post across the League as they’re published, including all sub-blogs. You can follow it here. Same goes for our Facebook page which you...

Good day, dear reader. After gnashing my teeth a bit at the recent Virginia legislation (which I will not rehash, as my fellow Leaguers have done the heavy work), I have decided to focus...

Sometimes the inertia of public discourse is simply too hard to resist… Ross Douthat asks, “What Reduces Abortion Rates?” Specifically, Douthat is tackling the claim that better access to contraception and legal abortion reduces abortion...

When I was drawing up topics for blognado I item on my list was political speech and campaign finance, so when I saw that Elias and Dan post, I decided it was fate, or whatever equivalent we soulless materialists believe in....

Pseudonymous blogging strikes the right balance, for me, between the ability to project a clear and consistent identity to those interested in exchanging ideas, and buffering my sometimes unpopular ideas from meatworld decisionmakers, some...

An old blog post, resurrected and edited slightly for today. Household work is not the sole responsibility of either the male or female partner in a relationship.  Any gender linkage to job roles should...

Day 2 of Blognado is upon us (or upon me anyway, I’m never sure where your day boundaries are relative to mine), so to keep people interested I thought I’d discuss something light and easily relocatable like the intricacies of...

Last year a friend of mine had concerns about her teenage daughter’s health.  Without going into detail, know that certain troubling symptoms had led her to believe that her daughter’s reproductive health might be...

Lauara McKenna is probably my favorite blogger. I sort of love her. She blogs at Apt 11D about all sorts of things but mostly about her life as a transplanted New Yorker, former academic,...