Look at those Cavemen go!
Feeling bored the other day I attended a “punk rock matinee” at the local institution of higher drinking. How these happen is the owner of the punk rock record store around the corner books...
Author: Rufus F.
Because of all we’ve seen, Because of all we’ve said, We are the dead
What are prisons for? It’s an easy question to answer quickly, but then the answers pile up. Prisons are designed to keep criminals off the street, but not forever. They’re intended to punish those...
Forget me not
Back before there were photographic school yearbooks, it was not uncommon for young people to have autograph books. They were small notebooks with hard covers that were small enough to fit in one’s pocket....
Notes inspired by The House of Mirth
Is marriage an unsolvable problem? It certainly seems that way from the case studies offered in Western literature where happy marriages are few and far between and often of the long distance sort of...
No, I am a (local) rock star
Apologies to James Poulos. Been meaning to post something by “the noble Savages.” This song is about the apocalypse. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/70401725″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]
Movie notes: The Killing of America
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...
Sympathy for the Record Industry
To hear them tell it, they’ll be lucky to stay afloat for a few more years.
Paradise Lost: “Eves, Apples, Adam Smashers!”
[Note: Oh, hey, how’s it going?] Brother Jaybird has an adage about never mistaking matters of aesthetics for those of morality when forming public policy. But I wonder if it goes the other way...
Unordinary Gentlemen
As we know, our site name is ironic- gentlemen are anything but ordinary now. Here Andrew Gimson mourns the death of the English gentleman and its concomitant ideal of good, selfless conduct. George Bernard...
Language Police
It’s leaked that homeland security or other law enforcement authorities are screening social media facilities to find plots about attacks, toxic gas incidents, drugs, gangs, violence, assassinations, and other threats by targeting certain words in...
Mildly distracting notes on distraction
“Throw away your books; no longer distract yourself; it is not allowed…” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations II: 2
Friday Jukebox
Hopefully, nobody else wanted this honor. I haven’t done it in a while. Plus, the Reverend Horton Heat played at my favorite bar on Wednesday and I was the DJ for the night, spinning...
Locke’s (somewhat Hobbesian) Second Treatise
[Note: No promises, but this post will likely make more sense if you first read my post on Hobbes’s Leviathan. There will not be an exam.] Okay, so previously, I said that the neat contrast...
Pay our hookers in bills, eh
Erik will be happy: Canada is getting rid of the penny. A loonie for your thoughts?
We also lay on guard for thee
Don’t look now, but Ontario just legalized prostitution, sweeping aside the country’s anti-prostitution laws. No word yet about whether Canadian prostitutes take Canadian Tire money.
Book notes: Sex at Dawn
I suppose I’m the most likely culprit here to read and comment on the recent book Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher...
The Silence is Deafening, but not Illuminating
Okay, don’t worry: this post is not about Rush Limbaugh or birth control pills. Alas! That stories so voluminously begun as the Chronicle of Limbaughpalooza 2012 (or Slutpocalypse Now) should come to so lame...
Retroactive Table of Contents: March 2 to March 9
It was a somewhat tumultuous week here at the League of Ordinary Nerds. After this, let us never speak of it again. Story of the Week: Limbaughpalooza 2012 Tod was shocked by Limbaugh’s apology...
Note on Nana and femmes fatales
In this entertaining episode of her web series, film writer Lianne Spiderbaby discusses the connection between film noirs, with their nefarious and inscrutable femmes fatales slinking about in the shadows, and shifting gender roles brought...
Playwriting Contest
Hey folks! I’m getting back to play writing with a screwball comedy. It’s about a corrupt big city mayor who takes on some grand and insincere endeavor to improve his image. It has to be something...
