Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Democracy. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. A few weeks ago, I… Continue Reading
So yesterday I’m playing Skyrim — a reward after having pull an all-nighter at work and completing a huge task, and a sedative before catching up on sleep — and I’m on one of the ice-covered islands north of Winterhold looking for a barrow to… Continue Reading
A young woman from the PRC named Wu Minxia was one of two teammates to win the gold medal in synchronized diving at the 2012 Olympics yesterday. Her well-earned celebration was spoiled, though…
We begin with an amusingly bland description from the intentionally-bland wikipedia: “Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk-rock collective that stages politically provocative impromptu performances in Moscow, on subjects such as the status of women in Russia, and most recently against… Continue Reading
Sixty-five member states of the United Nations qualify for membership in this list. They are: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China (PRC), Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El… Continue Reading
Kristen Stewart, the attractive actress who woodenly plays the Mary Sue heroine of the astonishingly bad yet ridiculously popular “Twilight” movies by never smiling ever (seriously, this is the best I think she can do), turns out to have been… Continue Reading
My chief complaint about the new “Ice Cream Sandwich” Android 4.0 OS that recently installed itself on my phone is that it’s extremely easy to stack icons for apps on top of one another, and rather difficult to subsequently separate them.… Continue Reading
When we consider the history of the early United States, it’s easy to think of the Founders’ failure to resolve the issue of slavery as a moral failure on their part (despite the admiration that they otherwise amply earned). Certainly… Continue Reading
While it’s been a couple of years since I started thinking of Republicans as “them” and not “us,” I nevertheless bemoan their complete collapse, because without a viable opposition party at the state level, Sacramento will never work towards finding… Continue Reading
A year ago, Norway suffered a mass spree killing at the hands of a sociopath with firearms. Seventy-seven people, many of them teenagers, were shot to death and the killer remains chillingly unapologetic. The Norwegian people underwent a massive national outpouring… Continue Reading