Leo Messi wins Ballon D’Or…
…in other things that aren’t news: Sun coming up from the east tomorrow. Notre Dame will get crushed by Bama…. Pope is still Catholic.
Daily Archive: January 7, 2013
The Guns In America Symposium: Epilogue
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far,...
If You Must Know…
‘Bama in a rout. Though I really wish a giant pit would open up at midfield and swallow up both teams.
What I’ve Learned from the Guns In America Symposium
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far,...
Nominations Towards Normalcy
The Weekly Standard and other neoconservative rags have started their predictable braying for blood after President Obama today nominated Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense and John Brennan for CIA Director. Most of the sound and...
Movie notes: The Killing of America
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so...
My Lucky Day
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far,...
Sympathy for the Record Industry
To hear them tell it, they’ll be lucky to stay afloat for a few more years.
A book club query…
Last week in the threads over at Mindless Diversions, I tossed out the idea of having a Beowulf/Grendel Book Club. It was really just a random afterthought at the end of an overly long...
Why Zero Dark Thirty?
I went into Zero Dark Thirty with several preconceptions. I followed the debate between film critics and political journalists very closely. I was aware of the movie’s major plot points and already had a list of key...
Another Question
Recently, I queried folks here on the appropriateness of our differing responses to hunting, which we generally consider acceptable or even laudable, and activities like dog fighting or turtle squashing, activities that are largely...
Still Dead
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so...
