Remember when National Post‘s Chris Selley made a joke in defense of Edmonton that their mayor just couldn’t understand? Well, now it’s Maclean’s Colby Cosh… except he’s actually making fun of Edmonton, and her mayor: A fine-dining...
Perhaps I may be indulged if I were to post once more about marriage equality and my own wedding? After this I’ll move on to something else to talk about. (I promise.) So the Better Half and I got married this past weekend. Again. To each other. Without any interruption in our relationship in the intervening years. The first time was almost exactly eight years before the second time. (Many guests at our recent celebration joked that they will pencil […]
In Kazzy’s Fathers aren’t Mothers post, dauntless commenter Michael Drew notes: This is not going to be a popular comment, and I want to be clear that it is not an argument but merely something...
In software development, one of the fundamental tools is revision control. It’s fundamental enough that if you’re talking to someone who writes software and you ask them what they use for revision control, you’ll...
I hate Wal-Mart. Shopping there is uncomfortable and awkward. One time I witnessed a family with young children walk the aisles at 3am, eating fried chicken, and dropping the bones on the ground. The...
Over at the New York Times, Katrin Beinnhold writes about the experience her husband and she had when they reversed typical gender roles as parents: I did something countless men do — in the...
In preparing for my recent instructional guide on sandwich making, I asked the MD crowd whether a hot dog qualified. Responses were mixed. Included in the conversation were whether burritos ought be classified as...
There was a tragic derailment in the Québec town of Lac-Mégantic this weekend. At about 1:00 AM Saturday mordning, a runaway train went off the tracks in the town’s downtown, causing multiple explosions and...
We’re offering free Marlinspike Seamanship for Beginners workshops on the deck of Mon Tiki every Tuesday at 10:30AM, the beginning of making good on a promise I made to myself here.
Did Rush Limbaugh really tell his caller, “Tony from Tampa,” to not watch FOX? No, he told his caller not to watch a particular panel of “liberals” on FOX Business Channel. As Mr. Limbaugh...
“To have intercourse without intending children is to violate nature, which we must take as our teacher.” – Clement of Alexandria Throughout many traditions of Christian thought, theologians have taken nature, by which they’ve...
Here’s a thing I didn’t know until this morning: A close aide to Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) who co-wrote the senator’s 2011 book spent years working as a pro-secessionist radio pundit and neo-Confederate...
Conor Friedersdorf is calling out a particular kind of illogic in his recent post on “Privacy Moderates.” Specifically, he cites those who think both that the current surveillance regime needs to be altered and...
The rhetorical case for protecting the unborn has succeeded. The debate is over. It would be, that is, had the Supreme Court not issued – in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s own words – a “difficult to justify,” “heavy-handed judicial intervention” in Roe v. Wade 40 years ago. Today, nearly two-thirds of Americans support making abortion generally illegal after the first three months of pregnancy. A staggering four-fifths support bans in the last three months. So if the pro-choice movement is […]
Indiana legislature makes it a felony to apply for a marriage license if you’re not a heterosexual couple. Beginning July 1, 2014, a same-sex couple applying for a marriage license in the state of...
[At our sub-blog, my co-blogger Vikram Bath made a post this morning that I think deserves some love from the front page. Below is a lead-in as a teaser and the link to the full...
Now, it’d be foolish of me to declare that there is a right way to make a sandwich, that I have discovered it, and that you all ought to accept my word as gospel....
Two weeks ago I found myself sitting at a table at a wedding reception in Florida, talking with my fellow guests about lessons learned in our own marriages. The conversation led to the word...
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on Open Mic for the week of 2/24/2025Something something g leopards eating faces something something. on Open Mic for the week of 2/24/2025In case you thought Gamergate was (thankfully) dead, think again. https://www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w… on Open Mic for the week of 2/17/2025There are people out there, essential people!, who cannot answer the question "what do you do here?"…
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