Author: AF Editors
By • Jan 20,2009

Inauguration Day Minus One

In several hours, I head downtown toward the general vicinity of the Inauguration. I don’t have a ticket, but I figure with the size of the crowd expected, I’ll still...

By • Jan 20,2009

My inaugural post

Hello. What Conventional Folly really needed was a third blogger named David, so here I am. Now let me tell you a bit a where I was before. From April...

By • Jan 19,2009

Banning Smoking in Oregon

The first time I saw Don Younger he was holding a beer. Owner of the legendary Horse Brass Pub in Portland, Oregon, Younger stared intently out of a two-page photo...

By • Jan 19,2009

I have a theory

That every time Nicholas Kristof fires off another column, thousands of New York Times-reading sex tourists book airline tickets to southeast Asia.