NASCAR Bans Confederate Flags
NASCAR said it is banning the flying of Confederate flags at its races and other events.
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Iowa, Where Political Narratives Go To Die, Gussies Up For Funerals
Iowa is a wonderful place full of wonderful people. The 2024 Iowa caucuses are a complete waste of everyone’s time, money, and bandwidth.
POETS Day! Revisiting Clampitt with Cummings In Mind
There’s a valid complaint about poetry written beginning somewhere in the middle of the last century that claims modern poetry is written for a smaller and smaller audience of attuned readers
POETS Day! Ogden Nash
It’s a silly bit of nothing, I’m not blown away, but my name is not emblazoned in the Ogden Nash tier of wordsmiths, so take his word(s) over mine.
Dancing In A Constant Feedback Loop: The Big Sort and COVID
Depending on the media you consume, COVID-19 is either a mild sickness blown out of proportion…or it is the end of America as we know it.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Non-suffering of Foolishness Edition
It is Monday, folks, and while we hope you and yours are safe and well, there is plenty going on in the world of politics and culture that we need to get into.
Saturday Spins
Gather round y’all and prepare to take a perambulatory adventure through the deep south on this edition of Saturday Spins!
Tiger Woods’ Far From Perfect Circle
We do love redemptive stories in the third act, after the darkness of the second eclipses the high notes of the first.
Tech Tuesday, Bacteria Still Rule Edition (12/5/17)
So I recently discovered Steven Universe. I fully recommend it (it’s on Cartoon Network and Hulu). Some people on Tumblr, etc. get a little too into it, but it is quite smart. Don’t let the animation style make you think it isn’t.
A Qatari Travelogue (And Conversion)
Seeing the World can get you to change your mind about a lot of things.
Walker, Texas Lawsuit
What happens when a fraternal organization, dedicated to commemorating Confederate veterans of the U.S. Civil War, declares “all in” before the U.S. Supreme Court, in a case where there appear to be two directly controlling yet contradictory cases and the ideological alignments of the Justices are apparently inverted? Burt Likko breaks down today’s license plate case.
Linky Friday: Century Edition
Celebrating 100 Linky Fridays! This week: Crime, Culture, Children, Capitalism, Politics, Body, Mind, and Space
Oh, Tennessee
I often get the sense that Tennessee, Texas, and Florida are locked in a never-ending war to decide which of the three is the craziest state in the union. Granted, Florida wins most of the battles, but Tennessee and Texas get in a lot of really good shots. I think Tennessee may have just landed a doozy, though.
Can Someone Please Explain Soccer to Me?
Everyone is talking about the World Cup and I really don’t understand any of it. Here’s your chance to tell me what I am missing.
Why has Conservatism inexplicably become our generation’s Hollywood Squares?
“On Monday morning, Romney’s local team in Dayton was eagerly preparing to host the candidate the following day. A high school gym had been reserved, a stage had been rented, and a pair of...
Entertaining Inequality
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. ...
I don’t watch football for the violence
Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger writes in Newsweek/Beast of the Junior Seau suicide: If you asked reporters why they were there, they would give some mumbo-jumbo reason that as hard as it may be,...
Radical steps needed to combat climate change
This is a ‘promoted comment‘ from the post “Climate Change is Real and it’s Heating Up‘. It has been edited for clarity, with sources added. ~by mclaren Excellent post by Kain, as usual. The...
