Week Three Roundup
I just watched Monday Night Football. Green Bay can beat the Seahawks. They did beat the Seahawks. But they can’t beat the Zebras. That was an interception. The replacement refs have finally decided a game,...
Author: Burt Likko
Yu Can Eat Mor Chikin Now Again
Good news, deep fried chicken sandwich fans. You can once again choose Chick-fil-A as an option when you wish to indulge in a less-than-optimally-healthy lunch. Apparently corporate policy at Chick-fil-A has changed and according to at least...
Hiding The Happy
Court proceedings are, as a rule, public. By design, anyone is entitled to see pretty much everything that happens in open court. Now, I’m in court a lot. So I see restraining orders get...
Week Two Roundup
My birthday is Sunday, but my present came early — the NFL direct package and the Red Zone channel. Sunday morning there were nine games going at once and it was so great I...
Friday Jukebox: Live Blues Edition
Because I like the blues, especially live blues. Because blues goes well with bourbon. Enjoy the music, and enjoy the open thread.
American Ambassador To Libya Killed
Yesterday, the minister from Florida who did those stupid and pointless Koran-burning stunts released promoted a movie called Innocence of Muslims. The U.S. embassy to Egypt responded by issuing a statement condemning the film: “Respect...
Week One Roundup
The first week is always a little tough; everyone’s getting their bearings. A brief writeup and standings below the fold.
Football Schedule Reminder
Hey, LoOG Fantasy Football players! This is your week one reminder to get your rosters updated today, before 8:30 eastern time (5:30 Pacific). For some reason that makes little sense to me, the NFL scheduled...
The League Of Ordinary Fantasy Football (UPDATED)
Please join up for this year’s fantasy football league! Sign up here, using the password tombradysbabygoat. If you have difficulty locating the page, it’s Yahoo Fantasy Football league no. 627721. The winner of the fantasy...
The Most Interesting Congressional Race In 2012…
…may very well be in Arizona’s new Ninth Congressional District, which wraps around the eastern side of Phoenix like a crescent, including much of Tempe and parts of Scottsdale, Mesa, Chandler, and Paradise Valley. If...
Whiteville: Endgame
I have previously written about the water tower cross in Whiteville, Tennessee three times: here, here, and here. The story is pretty much over now. On August 8, 2012, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the...
A Pleasant Bigotry
Northwest sockeye salmon with Washington sweet corn. Heirloom tomatoes. New-potato gnocchi. Roasted peaches with an oat-and-almond crumble. Cocktails, and then wine. No, that’s not what was served for dinner in Casa Likko last night, although...
The Alpha-Alpha Male Strategy
Of all the tactics available to the Republican party to overcome the 12-point gender gap,* this would be… one of them. UPDATE: A tweet from Ross Douthat suggests that it was supposed to be a joke, or...
Come Pop My Bubble
When I read this article by Mark Adomanis in Forbes online, I find myself a bit confused. Adomanis mantains that there is a significant strain of American conservatism that looks at l’affaire d’Pussy Riot in Russia and...
Maybe The Fish All Died
Once upon a time about a year ago, a man who had been elected to the United States Congress went to Israel and he had ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ybe a little too much to drink and then he went skinny...
Shame On Russia
Three of the members of Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot have been found guilty of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” and sentenced to two years of labor in a corrective institution, with credit...
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Granted, the Economist can only take an educated guess into how the Roman Catholic Church spends its money. So we need to take the numbers with that caution in mind. Still, the notion of this particular religious...
Closing the Democracy Symposium
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Democracy. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click...
Popular Erosion Of Liberty: Do You Feel Lucky?
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Democracy. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click...
Convening the Democracy Symposium
Hi there everybody. This post opens up our second symposium, this time on the subject of democracy. Our opening question is: “Is liberal democracy viable?” There are lots of directions an author might go...
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