TBogg's nickname for Bob Owens -- usually known around these parts as Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee -- is especially apt today. Gun Counter Gomer believes that Virginia Tech and other college campuses would be a lot safer if everyone were packing heat:Would the number of students shot...
Month: April 2007
To follow up on Matt and Atrios, Radley Balko asks his readers if they've heard of James Giles. Giles, like the three men in the Duke rape case, was falsely.
This is horrible....31 so far. How is that even possible?
Charlie Rangel and Jeff Flake had a good op-ed in Saturday's Washington Post about Cuba policy:We should unite around a principle that Democrats and Republicans have long embraced, a principle that aided the West's success in the Cold War: American openness is a source of...
Why? I don't bear any animosity towards Kerry, and I don't think his campaign was quite the disaster it's sometimes portrayed as, but, really, give it up.
Texas State Rep. Warren Chisum is at it again. Yes, that Warren Chisum. The one who wanted to pass a law banning the teaching of evolution in Texas schools. The.
You may have heard the shocking news that state-funded moralizing adults telling teenagers not to have sex do not, in fact, prevent teenagers from having sex. Interestingly, several states--not all of them liberal and coastal--have started to turn down the abjectly useless federal funding they're...
Many amazing people were born on this date: sociologist Emile Durkheim, journalist and labor leader Asa Philip Randolph, the incomparable blues mistress Bessie Smith, and Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci,.
We would be remiss in not observing Jackie Robinson Day. Robinson's contribution as a pioneer has probably obscured his talent as a ballplayer; between age thirty and thirty-three, he posted.
Among my numerous intellectual deficits, I'm not a very articulate film-and-TV-talking-guy like Scott, Rob, or DJW. I haven't watched television since August, and I've seen exactly two films in the theater since my daughter was born almost a year ago. Both of those latter excursions...
From an email from the Correctional Association's Women in Prison Project to the Coalition for Women Prisoners:In case you have not yet heard, for the first time in almost 30.
What on earth is a story about a designer who's been accused of rape by a number of models, some underage, doing in the Style Section? Because the women were.