Monthly Archive: January 2013

It’s one of those typical dark, rainy January days here in Portland; the kind of day where you look out the window and try to think of an excuse to stay  in your pajamas...

…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.

‘Bama in a rout.  Though I really wish a giant pit would open up at midfield and swallow up both teams.

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...

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...

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,...

To hear them tell it, they’ll be lucky to stay afloat for a few more years.

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...

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...

A preview of topics I will (hopefully) finish covering in the next week to tenday:

…distilled into one, perfect photo.

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,...

A common theme in our “Guns in America” symposium has been that hunting is a respectable past-time which ought to be shielded from onerous gun restrictions.  But I wonder… what separates hunting from dog...