Month: January 2013

A Strange Definition of Success… IFRL-NaPP-Space-17504602910_a939b425ba_k

A Strange Definition of Success…

Nob Akimoto January 5, 2013

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...

Briefly, On Football’s Culture and Rape IFRL-NaPP-Asia-rawpixel-id-459403

Briefly, On Football’s Culture and Rape

Sam Wilkinson January 5, 2013

On Monday, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will compete for college football’s national championship. This is the...

The Evil Inside All of Us IFRL-TLC-Religion-GAPD-gemaldegalerie.the-wings-of-the-wurzach-altar-6

The Evil Inside All of Us

Guest Authors January 5, 2013

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...

Great Fact, Little Fact IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.castle-by-the-river

Great Fact, Little Fact

Jason Kuznicki January 5, 2013

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...

A Dialog on Liberty and Equality Wanders into the Guns In America Symposium IFRL-TLC-Scenery-ihor-malytskyi-567429-unsplash

A Dialog on Liberty and Equality Wanders into the Guns In America Symposium

Jaybird January 4, 2013

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...

One Sensible Step At A Time IFRL-Mindiv-25937526454_3f57b41a47_b

One Sensible Step At A Time

Will Truman January 4, 2013

The Newtown Massacre affected me in ways that I am not sure any of the previous incidents...

For The Birds IFRL-TLC-War-27812994284_d498216b8e_b

For The Birds

Kazzy January 4, 2013

Flip ’em if you got ’em! It is now (or has been confirmed to have always been)...

Fictional Gun Violence and Mass Gun Killings IFRL-TLC-Religion-19258956972_a2e1ee01a8_o

Fictional Gun Violence and Mass Gun Killings

Rose Woodhouse January 4, 2013

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...

The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good e833b20d2bfc063ecd0b470de7444e90fe76e6dc1fb9174194f4c9_640_gun-barrel

The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good

Guest Authors January 4, 2013

A person who shall not be named conducted a planned and methodical mass murder against government and...

The Guns of My Heritage IFRL-TLC-Religion-GAPD-versailles.the-feast-in-the-house-of-simon-the-pharisee-5

The Guns of My Heritage

J.L. Wall January 4, 2013

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...

My Argument Against Gun Control IFRL-TLC-Patterns-GAPD-reinasofia.wine-jug-and-glass-288

My Argument Against Gun Control

Kazzy January 4, 2013

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...

Let’s Get Empirical! IFRL-TLC-War-GAPD-nationalgallery.portrait-of-a-gentleman-with-his-helmet-on-a-column-shaft-146

Let’s Get Empirical!

James K January 4, 2013

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I don’t really have a post’s worth of material on...

Insufficient Arguments IFRL-NaPP-Retro-800px-France_in_XXI_Century._Flying_police

Insufficient Arguments

Patrick January 3, 2013

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...

The Rhetoric of Crisis IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-25259453757_a79e0d610e_o

The Rhetoric of Crisis

Guest Authors January 3, 2013

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...

The Doomsday Provision IFRL-TLC-Patterns-GAPD-reinasofia.coffee-grinder-232

The Doomsday Provision

Tim Kowal January 3, 2013

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...

A Liberal Reconsiders Gun Control IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-tretyakov.via-appia-at-sunset-135

A Liberal Reconsiders Gun Control

Ethan Gach January 3, 2013

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...

A Perspective on Death in the USA IFRL-TLC-Patterns-rawpixel-id-378052

A Perspective on Death in the USA

Guest Authors January 3, 2013

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...

Assuming Good Faith IFRL-TLC-Scenery-rawpixel-id-380897

Assuming Good Faith

Mike Dwyer January 3, 2013

Hey folks – just a quick word here. The Guns in America symposium has been great so far...

For the Commonplace Book IFRL-Mindiv-pavel-nekoranec-800922-unsplash

For the Commonplace Book

Jason Kuznicki January 3, 2013

The real-life states people are stuck with, more often than not because their distant ancestors were beaten...

Me and a Gun IFRL-TLC-Scenery-jr-korpa-1238281-unsplash

Me and a Gun

Russell Saunders January 3, 2013

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...

Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025That means people expect them not to go full out. They're using the USA as the example on how things…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025None of the wars you invoked involve developed democracies. Israel is a develop democracy and is hel…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025it’s war logic hasn’t applied since World War II. Russia v Ukraine (or Russia v anyone). ISIS v anyo…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025The it's war logic hasn't applied since World War II. Humanity, especially in the democracies, is su…
Jaybird in reply to Marchmaine on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationWell, we had ours at the Air Force Academy Field House and there were all of these rules to get on t…
Jaybird in reply to InMD on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationOh... yeah. I can see that. When I was a kid out in the sticks, my school had about 25ish kids in my…
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationThey were doing this when I was at UMD (Go Terps!) because every graduating class has something like…
Marchmaine in reply to Jaybird on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationSeems cruel. Not like they talk directly about *my* daughter for 2hrs on each day. Plus, after a cou…
Brandon Isleib in reply to DensityDuck on A Hopeless SemanticIn my songwriting teens and twenties, I'd end up falling in love with a weird rhyme (or rhyme scheme…
DensityDuck on A Hopeless SemanticAs Keillor wrote, the sort of thing that soon slumps to such rhymes as ‘sibylline/porcupine’ and ‘ce…

Month: January 2013

A Strange Definition of Success…

Briefly, On Football’s Culture and Rape

The Evil Inside All of Us

Great Fact, Little Fact

A Dialog on Liberty and Equality Wanders into the Guns In America Symposium

One Sensible Step At A Time

For The Birds

Fictional Gun Violence and Mass Gun Killings

The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good

The Guns of My Heritage

My Argument Against Gun Control

Let’s Get Empirical!

Insufficient Arguments

The Rhetoric of Crisis

The Doomsday Provision

A Liberal Reconsiders Gun Control

A Perspective on Death in the USA

Assuming Good Faith

For the Commonplace Book

Me and a Gun

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