The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

From the same Reihan Salam post I quoted from in an earlier post: Recently, for example, I had an exchange with several friends on Twitter (which comes up a lot) over whether or not Harvard graduates who take lucrative jobs in the financial services industry should be the objects of moral condemnation. To me, the idea seems [...]

On Thursday we got our plywood, and yesterday we got our second delivery of dimensional lumber. That means the boat is in the barn — plywood, epoxy, lumber, glass — now it’s simply a matter of assembling it. The below was written and published somewhere between 1999 and 9/11. I know this because it makes [...]

I see that Elias has jumped on the study making the rounds that the net worth of America’s wealthiest family, the Walton’s, is greater than the combined net worth of the bottom 30% of Americans combined.  I must admit that upon first glance, I was just about equally shocked by this statistic.  It certainly seemed [...]

My goodness, the news on the radio this morning was grim.  Everything was Newt Gingrich this, Jerry Sandusky that, constant reminders that our economy is in the crapper, with wee reminders of how David Stern has totally fished the season for my Lakers just to top things off. When life’s news gets a little too, [...]

So, we’ve just narrowly averted — do we avert things in any other way? — we’ve just narrowly averted yet another government shutdown. I can’t help but feel that the magic is gone, and that, whatever horror a shutdown threat once held, it’s just not there anymore. Like the filibuster, it has become yet another [...]

Wired: “One of the biggest complaints about [books] is that they are used to consume, not create. If you give your kid a computer, she can program, write, draw, and endlessly create. [Books] posses a much more unilateral mode of interaction…” The things one might do on a computer, or a iPad, or a kludged [...]

Contrary to what my most recent posts here at the League might seem to indicate, it has not been all death and taxes this last week. Amidst the burials and the bloviating there has also been some boat building! As mentioned previously, we are building a 38′ polynesian-inspired catamaran, which we will be putting into [...]

Mike Riggs quotes approvingly this interview with Gary Johnson: “I think the Republican National Committee has hung me out to dry,” he said. “I’m angry. Really angry.” The wildly popular former two-term governor of New Mexico, who lost part of his toe to frostbite climbing Mount Everest on a broken leg, has been excluded from [...]

Perhaps some of you have heard of the recent court case wherein the Obsidian Finance Group won a $2.5 judgment against blogger Crystal Cox for defamation. Blogger Cox was accused of making false and defamatory statements about the Obsidian Finance Group, and if I understand her assertion, she claims she could only prove the truth of [...]

This post is prompted by three things: this conversation between Chris Carr and Matty, a recent conversation with my sister about the various hints our father (still in excellent health) has dropped about how he will take his leave, and the death earlier this week and burial tomorrow of my wife’s father after a long, [...]

Since it’s Opposite Week still, at least nominally, I figured today is as good as any to post my favorite explicitly pro-socialist anthem of all time. Larry Kirwan’s voice has a tendency to be pretty polarizing, which combined with his outspoken political lyrics is probably why Black 47′s appeal has always been limited, but dammit [...]

I spent yesterday doing employer’s paperwork chores: confirming our workmen’s comp policy is in force, contracting with a payroll service, scheduling delivery of materials, bitching about freight charges. This too is boat building. I’ve also been reading up on Peace Churches, and I came across something interesting in relation to payroll taxes. From the official [...]

Responding to the ad above, Allahpundit writes: The “unlike some people” is merely implied, but this one’s so heavy-handed that he might as well have tacked on a few shots of Newt with his ex-wives framed by a torn “heart” graphic. I’m tempted to say this will do Romney as much harm as good simply [...]