Whatever our opinions about the SCOTUS ruling…
…you have to admit these people are fishing morons, or a crowd-sourced art project.
Author: Nob Akimoto
And now for something completely different…
Just shouting out a congratulations to my friend Lesli, who will be published in a new anthology alongside such greats like Gaiman, Bradbury, Poe. Keep an eye out y’all for: Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved...
I see Racists everywhere…either I’m in the South, or I’m a Liberal…
Or maybe both. …I do try not to hate on this state…I’ve met many wonderful Texas natives. And then you read something like this… It’s almost enough to make me take up drinking again.
Crowd-sourcing: A Personal Experiment
Dear Readers, Some of you may know that over the last year or so, I’ve been struggling with finding funding sources to finish my graduate degree. I’ve decided that an attempt at crowd-sourcing might...
Elinor Ostrom…
…has died. Her work and life speak for themselves. Rest in peace, dear professor. May we prove equal to your insights.
Scales of Pareto Efficiency: Global and National
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposiumhere. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. In...
Alas, if only she’d follow the rules…
…this girl wouldn’t have to spend a day in jail and pay a fine. The nerve of some people, to think they can work to support their family and do school work and that...
*Sigh*….
Yes, yes, I know… Go ahead and gloat. http://gawker.com/5912071/lbj-school-of-pubic-affairs-apologizes-after-unfortunate-typo-goes-public
Suicide is Painless…It Brings on Many Changes…
…and I can take or leave it if I please. It was much easier to be an outsider at 25 than at 15. Not that it’s easy. Anxiety attacks, bipolar mood swings, a general...
For the love of all that’s holy…
Can we please remember that Edmund Burke was a WHIG politician, not some grand old Tory?
Let us be pedantical for all love! Pt1 – When was Jack Aubrey Born?
Dear reader if you are anything like me you may on occasion grow tired of dealing with the daily inanity of what has come to be termed the political media. So for my next...
The Morally Degenerate Sociopath’s Defense of Counter-Terrorism….
Fellow League blogger Ethan’s post about the Obama foreign policy dredges up perhaps the biggest tension point regarding Obama’s foreign policy: Counter-Terrorism policy. Somewhat coincidentally Administration Counter-Terrorism Adviser John Brennan gave a speech on...
Strawmen Tell No Tales: The Sophistry of Victor Davis Hanson
Hello again dear reader. Why yes, this is another post in as many days… While I rant and rage in comments, I try to keep polemics out of my front page posts and stick...
My Two Cents (Worth only half a cent 10 years from now…)
The biggest and greatest village preoccupation over the past several years has been the national debt. This has been helped by the criminal mismanagement (and I do mean this quite literally, if Greece were...
Strip-Searching: Supremes Say We Shouldn’t Doubt Law Enforcement…
Evidently this doesn’t count as radical, or statist, or anything… Because surely, letting the cops strip search you under any context is substantially more libertarian than the individual mandate. Because surely, government overreach is only...
The Price of Nations…
Dear readers, the posts by both Blaise and Burt have put me into a contemplative mood. The mention of the Romanovs and Massoud put that germinated into a thought: What does it cost to...
Roleplaying, Policymaking and Game Masters….
Hello dear readers. Having taken a detour into state formation in fantasy worlds, I’m now going to bring fantasy into policy making. Perhaps a week or so ago, I noticed that Sully brought up...
NobLes Oblige: State Formation in Fantasy Settings Pt.1 – Musings
Good day, dear reader. After gnashing my teeth a bit at the recent Virginia legislation (which I will not rehash, as my fellow Leaguers have done the heavy work), I have decided to focus...
Via George Takei…
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that there is such a thing as progress. Whatever else is being proposed in the name of “security” these days, this certainly isn’t. Let’s keep it that way. http://www.allegiancemusical.com/video/never-forget-never-again
The Myths of Empire and China.
Over at the Duck of Minerva, Robert E Kelly has a two part blog post discussing the applicability of Jack Snyder’s “Myths of Empire” theory to China.
