The Retroactive Table of Contents : February 24 – March 2
Headline of the Week: My Year With Guns When he was eight years old Tod Kelly fired his first loaded gun and got a black eye, fired his first empty gun and felt...
Daily Archive: March 2, 2012
Rise of the right-wing double-speak machine and the Sandra Fluke affair
Think of this as a brief addition to Tod Kelly’s last piece which reminded me how unbelievably silly the American political scene has become. This whole Sandra Fluke affair – my eyes just glaze over. I can’t...
Sailing Away to Irrelevance: Rush Limbaugh & The Right’s Self-Destructive Dependency on The Media Machine
Nine months ago, Jaybird asked readers and contributors alike to take a stab at predicting the outcome of the then-burgeoning 2012 Presidential Campaign. My answer then stands today. (BTW, a big hat tip to...
Jurisprudence blogging 0: Prologue
Questions of jurisprudence can become quite complicated. When we want to ask whether a particular judge went outside the law in making a decision, (or whether he was right to do so) we need...
What Gives
It’s approaching a year since I’ve started looking for a means to financial security. This is a project I set out to documenting last July. The first few posts in the series concerned my...
