Monthly Archive: February 2012

I’ve not been pulling my weight in posts for a while and ideas have been running around in my head. So, instead of writing 3 separate posts, I will combine stuff into 1. So...

I was going to offer this as an update to my post from earlier this week, but the comment grew too long in the composition. As much as I enjoy the idea of authoring...

When the discussion over the HHS mandate started, I was more-or-less on the fence. If I leaned in either direction, it was against applying the mandate to the church. Over the course of the...

Hello, dear reader! I’m currently still working on matters to do with piracy, but I thought I might touch briefly on new economic information coming out of Europe. Eurostat, the directorate responsible for European...

[UPDATED 2/16; see end of post for update] [UPDATE II: 2/17 – Please see this piece of reporting from Glenn Beck’s site The Blaze.  Beck’s reporter, Madeleine Morgenstern, has done what the original stories...

[Over at Blinded Trials, my co-blogger Rose wrote the following post about Downton Abbey, with further reflection on the duties of art.  Several commenters indicated it deserved a bit more attention, and would be...

In this entertaining episode of her web series, film writer Lianne Spiderbaby discusses the connection between film noirs, with their nefarious and inscrutable femmes fatales slinking about in the shadows, and shifting gender roles brought...

The League managed to turn a discussion about High vs. Low Art into a discussion about Conservative vs. Liberal Art over the last few days… I wonder if I’m the only one that noticed...

A Game of Thrones themed Valentine’s Day cards.

In a post at American Times, E.D. writes: It’s the same in politics: conservatives aren’t so much interested with their own ideas about governance as they are about responding to and obstructing the ideas...

A year ago I was a broken man. A year ago I had just concluded a week of guest-posting for James Fallows wherein a traced the entire, but ultimately unsuccessful arc of the Comstock...

Borat: “I do a picture, only small, of the Tishnik Masacre. Where many Uzbeks…crushed!” Kindly Gray Hippie: “How did you feel when you drew this?” Borat: “Very proud!”. KGH: “I’m just listening with sadness…a...

Well, $0.04. Mrs. TVD & I [she’s an actress, a musician and an all-around aesthete] think of it like competitive diving–degree of difficulty times excellence of execution. Anybody can do a cannonball, or take...

A little more than three years ago we got an inquiry from Yojani Hernandez of the NY LGTB Center. She’s the programer for their Lesbian Cinema Arts Series, and wanted to know if we’d let...

Read the story here. Here’s the paragraph that would make clicking through worthwhile, if you’re still undecided: If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred...

There’s been quite a bit of discussion recently about the Obama Administration’s manner of implementing provisions of the Affordable Care Act by requiring that employer-funded healthcare plans include contraception. By now, every Reader here...