Where a “boys will be boys” mentality leads you: It came without warning. It would start with a howling noise from a senior football player at Sayreville War Memorial High School, and then the locker room lights were abruptly shut off. In the darkness, a freshman football player would be pinned to the locker-room floor, […]
Month: October 2014
It’s well known that having more educational credentials correlates strongly with higher income. This correlation has led lots of people to make the common sense assumption that increasing the e
One of my favorite games to play with my mom (as an adult) was Casting Couch. Much less exciting than it sounds, it was basically just my mom and I recasting classic movies with modern casts. Well, it
It’s a bit difficult to come back to active blogging after the fundraising campaign for my stolen computers and–far, far worse–the lost documents for my book. At least I had submitted the thing already so even if I have significant revisions, it’s not like I have to start the whole project over. But still, it’s […]
One of the earliest blog posts I ever wrote was a response to (not entirely serious) calls from the left that the blue states should secede and join Canada after the 2004 election when George W. Bush
Matthew Franck offers many reasons for his comparison. You will be surprised to learn that they are all terrible. Let’s start: Like Dred Scott, judicial decisions in favor of same-sex marriage
For all the abuse Yost got for the wildcard game, what Matt Williams did tonight was indeed far worse. In fairness, nobody could have predicted that a managerial protege of Kirk Gibson would turn out to be shaky. And now we have a Giants/Cardinals NLCS, which for neutral observers must be by far the most […]
We will never reach peak High Broderism: The cool kids say only losers like bipartisanship. "Come on, chicken. Try some gridlock. Everybody's doing it." http://t.co/kIgvnka5Ou — Ro
Via Jeb, a HOT TAKE from Tim Teeman: But my most immediate thought was: Why take pictures of yourselves having sex, or naked, in the first place, which you then choose to share electronically? In doin
This podcast is a bit of experiment in format, production, and distribution, as was necessitated by the death of the computer that had all the LGM podcast templates on it.* If all goes well, at the bottom of this post there will be a podcast, and if you’re subscribed to the podcasts via iTunes, there […]
Syndicated columnist William F. George is very excited about a Republican hack about to be trounced in a Senate election. Why? His exciting old ideas: Because Bell speaks incessantly about the dangers
If you’re going to be in the LA area, please try to check out the art installation “A Woman’s Room Online” by Skepchick and artist, Amy Roth. It’s a project that tries