Arizona may be my last straw. My home state has gone off the deep end lately (and...
Erik Kain
Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the contributor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.
I’ve given Phillip Blond another chance at convincing me of his vision but alas I find his...
William summarizes Millman’s taxonomy (and doesn’t that roll off the tongue? You almost want to capitalize ‘taxonomy’:...
I don’t have a lot to say about Comedy Central’s decision to apparently censor the 201st episode...
I was a little disappointed to see that the conversation on my ‘folkways’ post went the direction...
I love debate, as all of you here know, but when someone picks on Mark Levin –...
[updated below] I’ve been thinking about birth a great deal lately. This is likely because birth in...
If you like music, this is really important. The architecture of online music distribution has been amazing...
I am perhaps four fifths of the way through the fourth of the Malazan books – House...
I’ve gotten some good pushback on my new atheist post, and probably – quite likely even –...
Sometimes I’m embarrassed to be an Arizonan. Indeed, I think I would be a far more vociferous...
[updated] ‘Odious as the physical abuse of children by priests undoubtedly is, I suspect that it may...
Over at True/Slant I begin to lay out what I see as an emerging narrative of Pope...
I realize that I have been teetering on the brink of some form of madness or obsession...
In this slide (9/16) on ABC’s slideshow report on the supposed mishandling of the abuse cases of...
In yet another misleading and emotionally driven post, Andrew Sullivan attempts to spin the decision to suspend...
Thinking about this some more, it appears Andrew has missed my point entirely. The aesthetic argument was...
Andrew writes that my defense of the Pope is ‘incredibly wrong-headed and simplistic’ and then focuses entirely...
“[T]his basic truth remains: the moral authority of Catholic church’s central authority is over. The only two...
[updated] “I read the coverage of the Pope every day in the newspapers and listen to the...
