The Public and Science
Last year I wrote about the complicated relationship of conservatives and science. New events underscore this problem as of late. Max Tegmark, writing for the Huffington Post discusses an MIT survey on religion and...
Monthly Archive: May 2013
Fan Wankery Takes Star Trek Into Darkness.
Edit: Reposted with a new date so that people can comment on it and stuff. Note: This post is spoilerific. It will completely ruin any surprises that might exist in the upcoming movie Star Trek...
Friday Night Jukebox – Chapel Hill, Remastered!
Walking home today, I stopped into my local music shop on a lark. There’s a particular album from a particular band that I’ve been looking for. I had it, years ago, on cassette –...
Driving Blind: Lego Casino Royal and Remembering GeoCities
It’s a beautiful day in the nation’s breadbasket which means the commute home will be deadly. Fortunately I’ll be hopping the express to 69th Street with these links to occupy the time. Yahoo! is looking to...
The Glories Of Precooked Meat Product
The League of Ordinary Gentlemen tries to be a soothing oasis of intellectual rumination in the internet’s roiling ocean of flippant commentary. That said, we just received the following in our spam folder: “I...
…Because Getting Off Is Fun
The esteemed Kyle Cupp was written a beautifully thoughtful essay in which he puzzles over the Catholic Church’s insistence that certain kinds of sex are necessarily injurious. First he writes: I’ve asked Catholics who...
Pics or it didn’t happen?
One of the slow-news-day stories zipping around the blogosphere this morning is the tale of NRO’s Kevin Williamson act of bravery or hooliganism (depending on whose blog you’re reading). If you haven’t come across...
No Automatic Harmony: Kenneth Waltz
“In anarchy, there is no automatic harmony.” Kenneth Waltz wrote unpleasant truths about the world and lived long enough to see the vindication of his positions. His book, Man, the State and War, and...
The IRS Scandal and How to Fix It. Forever.
The right says: “This is terrible, someone should pay!” The left says: “This is not really a scandal at all. It’s business as usual. All we really need is to put the right people...
Driving Blind: BDSM and Which is the Best Star Trek
Due to popular demand (two people), I’m bringing my daily commute reads to the front page on…Monday (since I clearly forgot to uncheck the “mini post” box on this one! Conor Friedersdorf riffs on...
Musings on The Truman Show and Pleasantville
This week’s Thursday Night Bar Fight about living in a TV show of your choosing has got me thinking about two movies. I didn’t have either in mind when I came up with the...
Thursday Night Bar Fight #10: The “Three Hour Tour”
Bad news, everyone! NASA has just reported that a giant meteor is on a collision course with Earth. NASA has also confirmed there is no way to stop the moon-sized rock. Its arrival brings...
Nintendo Claims Ad Revenue from User Generated Youtube Videos
Knowing the esteemed legal pedigree of those here at the League, I was hoping some of you could help me tease out the major concerns here and on what basis the parties involved could...
For the Love of Christ, no, “AP”‘s records weren’t seized.
*Sigh* I’m getting a little tired of this distinction. I had a bit of a back and forth on twitter yesterday with Doug Mataconis. I seriously doubt that the AP even HAS centralized records...
What is your true rejection: Organ Trade Edition
One of the things that tells us whether we are actually thinking about an issue reasonably is whether there is any counterfactual that would change our minds about it. Given that we had a...
How To: Cook A Ramp Slurry
From mid-April to mid-May, the most glorious of the onion family grows on the wet hillsides of West Virginia (and several other, lesser states): ramps. Ramps are a delicacy that aren’t for everyone. Those...
Dems bring back Media Shield Law….
…or so says TPM. Some are probably pleased at this development. On a purely theoretical and abstract level of supporting certian policies, I too, support a media shield law. But this is entirely the...
Breaking: Acting IRS Head Commits Seppuku…
…conservative media now outraged Obama threw the director “under the bus”. But really, is this enough responsibility and head rolling?
Driving Blind: Afghanistan, Bombs, and Streaming Music
Adm. William McRaven, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command, believes, “We are achieving in the SOF world probably the best results we’ve seen in many, many years.”
Popular and Wrong
Bryan Caplan writes: Consider a world where 80% of people are Conformists, 10% of people are Righteous, and 10% are Reprobates. The Conformists are epistemically and morally neutral, so they believe and support whatever...
