We might be windmills

I'm intrigued by what people call their pets. My brother named his cat "Skookums" after the Chinook word for the creature othe...

I'm writing a paper on ska and its fans, and I created a little survey to help me collect some data. If you are a fan of ska (and only i...

I find many passages of scripture to be poetic, but I find the numbered verse format to be rigid and stifling, and not conductive of the lyr...

So my new calling is to teach Sunday school to the 12-18 year olds. Yes, that's right, all the youth are in one class. One of the many...

If it weren't for the fact that what's happening in Pakistan really is a tragedy, this would be hilarious. As it is, it's just ...

My perusal of the drudge report last week yielded this: " Automated Killer Robots are a Threat to Humanity ." I have three reactio...

We picked this one up at Target last week. I remember being intrigued by it when it came out, hearing classmates review it positively, thin...

All acting Oscars went to foreigners this year, and foreigners also won various other Oscars as well. I'm waiting for some nonsensical r...

In a move that would once more prove that Fox is a network of complete morons, Firefly died in 2002, shortly after seeing the light of day....

So I'm going to the Windy City on Thursday to compete in the Jessup International Moot Court Tournament. I need a good collection of tu...

John McCain sees Mike Huckabee's Texas Ranger and Raises him a Rambo and a Rocky. The ironic thing is, in a competition for whose celeb...

Attacking Obama all weekend, Bill must have just tuckered himself out. From the New York Post:

A few thoughts: 1) Why is Edwards still running? The guy hasn't won a primary yet, hasn't come close to winning one, and is not goi...

Walter Mondale , namesake of my Law School, former VP and one-time presidential candidate turned 80 today. I gotta say, he looks pretty goo...

I'll leave the parsing of the percentages and all that to abler analysts. What interests me more than the results are the speeches that ...

This is cross-posted at the Council of Fifty . I don't like Romney's politics. I've said this before . I also think he has com...

Ways that Brian Doyle has changed my life (I went to three of his presentations when he visited campus last month and just finished Leaping ...

Good: It's a Wonderful Life . This one has real staying power, if nothing else. It's also sentimental enough for Christmas without...

Last week the NYT published an editorial by Adam Freedman about the Second Amendment case we're waiting for the Court to hear. Freed...

I've been invited to blog over at The Council of Fifty , a new blog about politics and Mormons (the name was my idea). The original Coun...