Remix Culture!
Provoked by a great Battlestar Galactica-Sabotage mash-up, Sonny Bunch gets curmudgeonly about remix culture. The ensuing comment thread is pretty interesting; the (awesome) video that started it all is below the fold:
Author: Will
The Tea Party-Social Conservative Split
Tension between libertarian-leaning tea partiers and the GOP’s social conservative base was probably inevitable, but the most interesting part of the Politico’s story on a split within the movement is a disagreement over the...
Stick to lending books
Birmingham’s new library is billing itself as “a palazzo of human thought.” Adding injury to insult, the proposed design is just dreadfully ugly.
John Yoo: Not criminal, just incompetent
David Cole assembles some devastating criticism from Yoo’s former colleagues:
The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society should top this list
Wired has assembled the best concept albums of all time.
The League Diaspora
Ordinary Gentleman Matthew Schmitz discusses Eric Rohmer and French New Wave Cinema for First Things.
Critics of Woodrow Wilson strangely ignore the worst aspects of his presidency
I’m happy to see that disenchantment with Woodrow Wilson – the most bizarre candidate for the pantheon of great American presidents – is reaching a wider audience on the American Right. But this nascent...
Give us press passes!
An intrepid Baltimore blogger pushes for press access at Maryland’s State House (via Splice).
Alvar Aalto
I’ve heard Alvar Aalto described as a highbrow precursor to IKEA (which is emphatically not a Finnish company, by the way), but I’ve always appreciated how warm and welcoming his designs seem when compared...
Detroit, again
Outsiders moaning about Detroit’s woes can be a little unseemly (see this photo gallery, for example), but it’s hard not to feel for the residents of this embattled neighborhood. Read the whole thing, as...
Jeopardy recruits heavily from our blogroll
First James Poulos of Postmodern Conservative, now frequent commenter Kyle Matthews of Vogue Republic. We expect (nay, demand!) an incredibly dorky blog shout-out when Trebek interrogates you after the first commercial break, Kyle.
Compare and Contrast
From TNR’s excellent review of The Killer Trail, a history of one murderous French expedition into the heart of 19th century Africa (emphasis mine): The Europeans, Taithe notes, never recognized African kingdoms as states,...
Podcast: Oscar Night at the League
Here at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, we’re doing our part to help kill off serious film criticism. I sat down with distinguished League alumnus Freddie deBoer and Sonny Bunch of America’s Future Foundation...
The Most Entertaining Piece of Legislation You Will Read This Year
Some enterprising New Mexican legislator is trying to push Bill Richardson out of the governor’s office and into the presidency of the Motion Picture Association. The resolution urging Richardson to take the MPA gig...
Deploy the War Wagon!
This video on one Louisiana town’s plan to defend itself from “homegrown terrorists” really has to be seen to be believed:
The Next Culture War
After evolution, classroom fights over climate science and The Big Bang Theory are the next front in the education cultural war.
Scandinavian Noir
N+1 reviews the Millenium trilogy, a Swedish crime series that takes a surprisingly dim view of the welfare state:
