Monthly Archive: October 2014
When Superheroes Get Real
Dennis Sanders notes that for a short time, there was an animated series based on comic book characters that was as intense and real as any live action drama. It was acclaimed by critics and fans alike. So of course, DC Comics had to kill it.
Free Speech is a Double Edged Sword
Leon Klinghoffer was murdered by the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1985. He was an elderly retired Jewish man and confined to a wheelchair and on a cruise. The cruise was hijacked by the PLO...
Your Name in Bands
Just for kicks. My wife stumbled across this last night–the challenge is to spell your name in bands (without cheating and looking them up). Here’s me: Jazz Butcher
A Lovely Wedding Conundrum
Burt Likko thought he understood this six years ago: religion is religion, and business is business. But the Hobby Lobby case leaves the rules a whole lot blurrier.
Announcing the Ordinary Times Food Symposium
Without food, a table is but a place of convenient storage, a suspended plane where we temporarily discard books, car keys and the daily mail. But set food on that same table, and it magically becomes a place where we raise families, solve the World’s Problems over wine, celebrate, mourn, break hearts and fall in love.
A Bad Bargain
Adam Ozimek thinks that it would be a good idea for Republicans to bargain a higher minimum wage for cutting the corporate tax, on the basis that raising the minimum wage would be so problematic that it would get repealed. Will Truman disagrees.
Regarding the State
James Hanley considers Michael Humer’s suggestion that you’re all a bunch of brain-washed hostages.
Every Drop of Blood, That Every Roman Bears…
In which I engage in a meandering exploration of what purpose an oath serves in the 21st Century.
It’s Time to Have an Honest Conversation About Race…
A riot in Keene, NH is yet another example of the kinds of real race issues facing this country that the PC Police and the lamestream media don’t want you to talk about.
by Tod Kelly
Buying Experiences and Not Things
Vikram questions the now conventional wisdom of purchasing experiences rather than things.
Fantasy Football Week 6 In Review And NFL Open Thread
We break down the last week’s happenings in Fantasy Football and have enough wiggle room to talk about Percy Harvin being traded to the Jets.
Weekend!
Holy cow! Is it Friday already? Indeed it is!
Lotto musings conclude. (Unless it’s up to 250 next weekend in which case we stop with the little daydreams and get into the big ones.)
Skills Mismatch
I see this sort of thing fairly often when looking for jobs on Craigslist and other sites. A firm will post an add looking for an entry to intermediate level attorney. The add will...
