Saturday Jukebox
I was wondering why we didn’t have a Friday Night Jukebox yesterday, and I was then hit by the horrible possibility that it was a New Guy Chore and I’d totally screwed up. In...
Author: Tod Kelly
Dear President Obama: Please indoctrinate my child.
** POST IS UPDATED BELOW ** When my son was eight my wife and I starting getting emails and phone calls from other parents, warning us that the public school system was succumbing...
On Movement Conservatism and Labor… (no, the other kind of labor)
Forgive me if I go a little regional: For those that still believe that movement conservatives are anti-government and pro-free market except in very specific self-serving circumstances, I might recommend taking a look at...
Introduction/Overture/Prologue
It appears that my long-time moniker RTod is going the way of the buggy whip, “Trumwill,” and the edginess once associated with the Simpsons as I join the League’s regular posting… um… stable? Team? ...
“Yuck” a Duck
~by RTod On Wednesday Erik posted a picture of two (presumably) married costumed lesbians, kissing while holding a sign saying Liberty, a sign saying Justice, and a child that is either from the Village...
Bedtime Story
~by RTod Once upon a time, there was a Kingdom where the people were troubled. The kings and nobles that ruled them were vane, corrupt and cared little for those they were charged with protecting. While...
Curb Your Dogma
~by RTod Two weeks ago I wrote a guest post for the League; it essentially had two central thrusts at its core: The first was trying to define a kind of principle-centered pragmatism. But...
The Triumph of Music and the Downfall of Books in the Digital Age
~by RTod Borders has announced that it is closing it’s doors and beginning liquidation; this of course is already old news in this digital world that killed it. If you are in your...
A Defense of Pragmatism
~by RTod When I was in high school I briefly embraced Communism. I did so for all the reasons white suburban 16 years olds often do: Communism was defiant and rebellious, seemed at...
