Too late for the gun symposium…
… but perhaps worth noting anyway. Authorities say two young men got into a fight at a community college in Texas. Unfortunately, each was carrying a gun. In their attempt to solve their own...
Author: Tod Kelly
Coca-Cola, Big Tobacco, and Why the Personal Responsibility of the Consumer Should Not Be Allowed to Excuse Corporate Malfeasance
A new ad by Coca-Cola has caused a bit of fuss over the intertubes, including in the threads of a post by Ethan over in Off the Cuff. The debate that’s raging is centered...
Now That’s More Like It – Special Reality Edition
Last week Kazzy wrote a post on the heartwarming story of “the remarkable relationship between an elite college football player and a girl.” And as remarkable as that story was, it wasn’t nearly as...
Announcing the Beowulf & Grendel Book Club
Starting the week after next, the League will be hosting the Beowulf & Grendel Book Club*. Everyone and anyone is invited (nay, encouraged!) to participate. For those not familiar with either work, Beowulf is...
It’s Time to Rethink Head Start
Last month on the Friday before Christmas as people were preparing for the week of upcoming festivities, the United States Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation quietly released a report on the effectiveness of...
Slow Tuesday Jukebox: Lake Street Dive & Obadiah Parker
It’s one of those typical dark, rainy January days here in Portland; the kind of day where you look out the window and try to think of an excuse to stay in your pajamas...
The Guns In America Symposium: Epilogue
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far,...
A book club query…
Last week in the threads over at Mindless Diversions, I tossed out the idea of having a Beowulf/Grendel Book Club. It was really just a random afterthought at the end of an overly long...
The Guns In America Symposium : First Shot
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far,...
Old Long Since
Listen: Tonight, all around the globe, English-speaking people will gather to ring in the New Year. They’ll count down the final seconds of 2012, and as the clock strikes midnight they’ll shout out to...
Guns In America symposium reminder
As we announced a couple of weeks ago, this month’s symposium – which starts Jan. 2 – will be on Guns In America. If you still wish to submit a post, feel free to...
The FreedomWorks Coup that Almost Was
This past September, it appears the conservative lobbying group FreedomWorks was the site of what has to be one of the strangest failed coups in memory. The Washington Post published Amy Gardner’s reporting of...
The Cheap-Ass Gourmet Cookbook Shelf
As most of you know by now, one of my on-going projects here is the Cheap-Ass Gourmet series. The purpose of the Cheap-Ass posts is to provide a starting point for readers who are...
Surely a sign of the Apocalypse…
I’m starting to wonder if the Mayans were at least in the right ballpark on the date of the whole end of the world thing. Last night my beloved and perennially hapless Seahawks destroyed the the...
The Cheap-Ass Pantry
This past October I launched the Cheap-Ass Gourmet series, which CC added to with his most awesome homemade yogurt post. The purpose of the series was to provide a starting point for readers who...
Best ‘Post of the Year’ Nominations
Via DougJ over at Balloon Juice, it’s time to submit nominations for the best blog posts of the year over at Vagabond Scholar’s annual Jon Swift Memorial. All of the posts must be nominated...
Arkansas Town Declares Quasi-Martial Law to Fight Property Crime
The Guns In America symposium is still a couple of weeks away, but I thought I would highlight this story now: The mayor and chief of police of Paragould, AR announced this week that...
Sailing Away to Irrelevance, Epilogue: In Which the GOP is Finally and Inevitably Made Irrelevant
Two weeks ago, while almost no one was watching, Rick Santorum and the conservative media pulled off an historic, astounding and quite literal coup. They did this with the tiniest of acts: organizing to...
Announcing the January League Symposium: Guns In America
The League will be hosting a Symposium on Guns In America beginning on January 2. Consider this our first call for guest submissions. Like all League symposiums, we offer the topic heading as merely a...
Playa’ In the Hoooouse!!! : Lady Killer’s Guide to Picking Up Women at Bars
On Opposite Day, we do our best to argue in service of a position that, under normal circumstances, we argue against. Coke people might sing the praises of Pepsi, Cat people might talk about why...
