“Children’s Tea Party,” Morton H. B. Bly, 1919 by jfxgillis R.S.V.P. Wednesday, April 15th, Tax Day (reminder...
Esteemed co-blogger Chris Dierkes has a challenging post on the democratic process. Here’s a decent summary: In...
Kyle Cupp has this to say about my professed culture-war pacifism:
In the interests of showing that I will disagree as loudly with my friends as with my...
…is laying off all the school psychologists, school counselors, art teachers, music teachers, theatre teachers, P.E. teachers,...
Señor Payne a few posts down shrewdly argues that political hyper-partisanship is a outgrowth of laziness. He...
…that these “Tea Parties” are nothing more than GOP leftover rallies from a population still deeply absorbed...
Andrew Sullivan has been taking flak from movement conservatives (what else is new?) for calling the Tea...
“Saving” marriage obviously means objecting to gay-marriage. But what does this have to do with abortion? Can...
from Poems of the Naming of Places by William Wordsworth …we advanc’d Along the indented shore; when...
Nice try… Then we have to rip our eyes away from the inferior distractions like the League...
Stare at those circles for a minute. Trippy…
First, since today is Good Friday, let me apoloize upfront for the disturbing nature of the case...
The strangest (and perhaps sickest it could be argued) thing we Christians say is that this day...
“What leaves me with a queasy feeling, though, is the growing sense that Obama is willing to...
Original poetry by Erik Kain.
A few songs and some links to usher in the Easter Triduum….
Via Andrew, Felix Salmon pokes holes in a list of necessary reforms from Nassim Taleb: Taleb’s first...
This reminds me of the ridiculous measures taken after the lead scare. Not good news, to be...
The veal-chewing fizzicist manages to mock no fewer than 5 conspiracy theories in two sentences.
