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June 15, 2015 Locke

The Politics of… Srsly No One Care About Clinton’s Announcement Speech

Kevin Drum on Hillary Clinton’s lovely but completely ineffectual and unimplementable announcement speech: As near as I can tell, Americans seem to vote for

May 27, 2015 Locke / Of cabbages and kings

I Bought (Another) House – Wait, Why?

… or Shut-up State Farm, Your “Nevers” Commercial is Wrong! A few years ago, I moved out of my house in the ‘burbs into

April 21, 2015 Locke

Yellow Indians, White Asians, Black Europeans

… And Green Clovers? It’s easy and sometimes even required in politics to categorize peoples into very simplistic groups. Otherwise it would be difficult

March 30, 2015 Locke

The Monarchs of the Long Decline

There’s a series of passages in Arthur C. Clarke’s classic sci-fi novel, Rendezvous with Rama where he talks about humanity’s reaction to its first

March 26, 2015 Locke

Follow the Fold and Stray Some More

In high school, one of the musicals we did was the Guys and Dolls. I recently sat down and watched the 1955 movie version

Muslim American Flag by Christopher Batchelder, May 2012

March 12, 2015 Locke

American(ized) #Islam

Culture and religion, no matter how universal we may want to view the latter’s principles, are inexorably tied. Islam strives to be a religion

March 2, 2015 Locke

Craft… Or the Unexpected Virtue of Working at Your Work

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the idea of Craft. Of taking what we do and really working on it. Really incorporating skill

February 18, 2015 Locke

8 Months Later, I Still Miss My Doggy

Eight months ago, I had to put my dog to sleep. Oreo was about 12-14 years old; I had him for six of the

February 11, 2015 Locke

The Moral Therapeutic Deism of ISIS

Rod Dreher, in a characteristically brilliant post entitled When ISIS Ran the American South, reminds us that no society is too far removed, historically-speaking,

Angela George [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

October 7, 2014 Locke

Tribal Solutions to Ben Affleck’s Dust-Up with Bill Maher over Islam

Or… Infidels Have No Place at the Table By now you’ve probably heard of or seen the clip of Ben Affleck angrily defending Islam