Your Tax Dollars At Work
Granted, the Economist can only take an educated guess into how the Roman Catholic Church spends its money. So we need to take the numbers with that caution in mind. Still, the notion of this particular religious...
Monthly Archive: August 2012
The Independent Illusion
Greg Sargent published an interesting report yesterday from Colorado, where he’s been doing some old fashioned journamalism by talking to undecided voters in the Denver area. Greg writes that his findings should give both candidates...
Friday Jukebox: 1980s Crush Edition
I heard this on the radio driving in this morning. I’m wondering how many thousands of boys/men fell absolutely in love with Susanna Hoffs at the 2:47 mark. I know I did. Girl knew...
Talking about Things that Happened
A few months back, before The Avengers movie came out, I had a pre-movie open thread in which I discussed why the Captain America movie made me a little bit uncomfortable. Behind the cut,...
Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash Grow Old
After an English teacher decided to “warm up” his class for a test by playing a few tracks from Leonard Cohen’s Cohen Live, one of my brother’s friends, knowing that I was a Cohen...
Campaign 2012: The Return to Nixonland
By now, most of us have accepted that one of the central premises of Obama’s 2008 campaign — that he was the man to end the culture war and begin a new era of...
Growing Market Demand For the Left’s IDEAS
I spend more time complaining about left-wing rhetorical ineptitude than anything else. It’s as close a raison d’être as I’ve got, other than my wife and son (who are infinitely more valuable companions). My hobby...
Second Chances
Brother Will wrote a piece a couple of weeks ago about his different perspectives on fatherhood (or the expectation of fatherhood) that he had between a pregnancy scare in his youth and the real thing...
Doing (Sports) Journalism Right
My baseline assumption about sports journalists is that they’re essentially glorified stenographers engaged in nothing more than elaborate public relations campaigns dedicated to the preservation and exultation of athletic institutions. I am as confused...
But remember, it’s the evil government that we have to protect these companies from…
The insurance industry has a tendency to make itself unsympathetic. There is of course the case of the Aetna student health plan holder who had to resort to twitter to get the company to...
Things Libertarians Should Believe Or You Would Think
Well, by now, I’m sure we’ve all heard of the argument between the folks at Crooked Timber and the folks at Bleeding Heart Libertarians on the topic of whether or not Libertarians should be supportive...
PS … U?
Alyssa Rosenberg does a good job explaining why Penn State’s accreditation might reasonably come under scrutiny in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal — a news item that had left me thoroughly puzzled....
Forgive the defense their picks, Father – they know not what they do.
Remember when I said I couldn’t decide if the Broncos/Jets lightning-rod quarterback was Tim Tebow, the spunky athlete that just finds ways to win, or Tim Tebow™, the cynically marketed, pre-packaged product? Yeah, I...
Three Things About Paul Ryan as Romney’s VP Pick
I loathe Ryan, not least of all because I can now no longer sit in front of the telly (my Netflix queue has been full of British sitcoms) and let my frustration reservedly smolder as I watch the...
Whose Religious Liberty? What Value Pluralism? What Attention Span?
Caveat: I know that this is off-message and we’re all supposed to be fighting over whether or not Paul Ryan is a lunatic or a fiscal hawk and so on and so forth. I know...
Being rich is awesome! – or- Maybe Harry Reid is on to something after all…
Our current tax code is a complicated affair, and our desires to make to more “fair” are even more so. What is “fair,” after all? Is it the rate you pay, or the total...
Closing the Democracy Symposium
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Democracy. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click...
Today in League History…
Hey, guess what? You remember that one guy? The one that was one of the only four people to ever be banned from the League? The one that was banned for, among other things,...
Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to think: Gary Harrington, Oregon water rights, and Freedom
Note: This post may – or may not – be part of our League Symposium on Democracy. I can’t quite tell. [Moderator: Looks like it fits in to me. – BL] In any case,...
