Glee Week 1 Back Review
I have to say my Glee predictions turned out to be truer and materialize faster than I had anticipated. They tried the failed we’re going to be popular/now we’re not slushy in the face...
Author: Chris Dierkes
McWeed
Dateline: Vancouver, BC April 20th I’m starting to think 4/20 is a conspiracy perpetrated by the McDonalds corporation. I’ve just finished my normal daily routine of cleaning the outside grounds of the downtown church...
Radical Center Review
Michael Lind with a sharp piece in The Daily Beast reflecting on his 2001 book (co-authored with Ted Halstead) The Radical Center. The Radical Center and Lind’s earlier The New American Nation are lodestars...
It’s All About the Derivatives (Wait…What?)
With talk of financial regulation and fraud charges for Goldman Sachs in the air, this piece by Graham Summers via Automatic Earth gave me the spooks (scroll down the page). The intro: As we...
How Do You Say Patriot Missile in Hebrew?
Andrew Tabler has an important (if possibly a little too alarmist) piece in Foreign Policy on the current machinations of Syria, Hezbollah, and Israel. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak sent officials in Damascus and...
Why Glee Should Only Be One Season
Glee returns tomorrow night for the second half of its first season. What should be its only season in my book. I say this as a big fan of the show–a Gleek even perhaps....
New Blog Announcement
Today is the Launch Day for a new website Scott and I (Chris) are working on. Have no fear, we are not leaving the beloved League. The name of the site is Beams &...
Universal not Neo-Subjective Pragmatism
Freddie writes: To those who say that I am not disagreeing with Harris, I’m a bit confused: here I am, disagreeing with him. Harris claims that, despite uncertainty and a multiplicity of moral actions,...
Holy (and Wholly Misunderstood) Saturday
— From the Wiki on Holy Saturday, called The Holy Sabbath in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition: In the Greek tradition the clergy strew laurel leaves and flower petals all over the church to symbolize the shattered...
Why Call Good Friday Good?
Good Friday Prayer from the Eastern Orthodox tradition: Today He who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon the Cross (three times). He who is King of the angels is arrayed in a...
Brief Explanation of the Meaning of Resurrection
In the Western* Christian Liturgical Calendar we are in the midst of Holy Week and fast approaching Easter Sunday or rather Resurrection Sunday (Pascua as it is called in Spanish). This is a particularly...
I Need a Good Story
So I had a cut on the side of my nose the other day that has scarred over in a way I didn’t expect, making it look nastier than it really was. I need...
Triple Bank Shot Foreign Policy Theories = Very Bad Policy: Bombing Iran Edition
And now for something completely non Philip Blond related…. A foreign policy rant. (I don’t know what Blond’s foreign policy views are anyway). Veteran readers of mine (both of you) will recall that David...
Unable to Clear The Derivative Deck
Peter Atwater writes (concerning the fears of a double dip recession): Unfortunately, from my perspective there have been two very distinct recoveries. The first one is a recovery in asset prices — which I...
Comment of the Day
Goes to JosephFM (comment #5) to my earlier post on Philip Blond and Michael Sandel.
Blond with Sandel(s)
Two of the League’s brethren attended Philip Blond’s lecture at Georgetown last week. Will’s review here, David’s here. For those interested, Blond’s thought has been a source of numerous posts in the League’s annals...
Musical Interlude Brought to You by Gregory House
As a boy raised in churches, with a profound love of the black church tradition of the Hammonds, Soul-R&B, British 60s psychedelic rock, and the Canterbury Tales, the first minute and a half of...
One State to Rule Them All?
In the comments to my earlier post on Israel/Palestine, North and Michael Drew got into a very intelligent (and spirited) back and forth. Michael eventually wrote the following (way down in the thread of...
There is No Plan B for Mideast Peace (and Why We Need One)
Stephen Walt thinks that the latest spat between Israel and the US is grounds for bringing back up a topic that very few want to discuss: what plans/solutions/options remain if (and when) the two...
