Daily Archive: December 31, 2012

/// December 31, 2012

Happy New Year Cocktail Catch-Up

Happy New Year to all! I had been posting a monthly cocktail recipe at Slow Tuesday Night for a few months when I…stopped. No good excuse; I just lost the writing bug. I didn’t...

/// December 31, 2012

Old Long Since

Listen: Tonight, all around the globe, English-speaking people will gather to ring in the New Year. They’ll count down the final seconds of 2012, and as the clock strikes midnight they’ll shout out to...

/// December 31, 2012

A Primer on Guns

In preparation for the January symposium on “Guns in America” this post is offered to League readers as a primer of sorts on guns. It is in no way meant to be an exhaustive explanation of guns....

/// December 31, 2012

New Year’s Jukebox

Chuck Prophet, Slaid Cleaves, and Charlie Robison. (And Death Cab! Forgot about Death Cab!)

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