decorabilia

This is the seventh in an annual tradition, and because I am lazy, bereft of ideas, and still moping about with a shoulder injury, there are...

Denis Dutton , founder of the essential Arts and Letters Daily , has passed away. Nick Gillespie's kind words are worth reading. In ef...

Regarding the LD January-February 2011 topic , a reader writes, How would I counter the neg claim that recidivism rates are lower in juveni...

Problem : You have a separated shoulder, requiring ice every few hours. But you can't just hold a Ziploc bag up there for twenty minute...

A reader, H Siddiqi , has answered the call and offered to guest-blog. The topic: using theory in LD. So a lot of you have probably hear...

Today I tore my acromioclavicular joint while trying to reenact my childhood, by which I mean sledding down a steep, snowy slope. Typing is...

Arcade Fire, The Suburbs "...a generously paced collection of meditations on familial responsibility, private disappointments, and fle...

My lone contribution to the corpus of Google Ngram -based scholarship is to note the approximate date when "commie" permanently su...

If I was a little road-ragey on the drive home yesterday afternoon, it wasn't just because the freeway was clogged by idiots (58 in the ...

The fascinating case of "SM," the woman who feels no fear : She apparently hasn't felt fear as an adult, not even 15 years ag...

Congrats to my brother, who will soon have his first book published. (First solo project, anyhow, which counts more than sharing a volume ...

The NFL LD resolution for January / February 2011 offers all kinds of interesting possibilities, since it considers potential distinctions ...

The January / February 2011 resolution asks us to consider the merits of treating juveniles as adults in the U.S. criminal justice system. ...

Below are some sample Resolutional Analyses and Observations written for the January / February juvenile justice resolution. Each has it...

I spent a good thirty minutes imagining blogging about this article , and yet, sadly, the desire to blog about it only grew stronger. Well...

Some scattered thoughts regarding the January / February 2011 LD resolution. Before proceeding, let's recall its exact words: Resolve...

I've turned on comment moderation. Sorry for the inconvenience; one spammer has been going crazy, and so we all have to suffer for a wh...

The January / February 2011 LD resolution asks us to consider treating as adults those juveniles who have been charged with "violent f...

If we treat juveniles charged with violent crimes the same way we treat adults , the argument will go, we will--must?--punish them the same ...

The NFL Lincoln Douglas debate resolution for January / February 2011 has been released: Resolved: In the United States, juveniles charged ...