The NY Times is reporting today that the NY City Council is considering banning the B-word (that would be "bitch"), much as they did with the N-word this spring. The ban, like the N-word ban, would be largely symbolic. And, like its predecessor, the council...
Month: August 2007
Kathryn Jean Lopez essays the "my unprincipled positions on abortion are defensible because women are passive victims who cannot be held morally responsible for their actions" routine. I've recently explained.
I can't think of a less sympathetic group to defend than sex offenders. But here I go.TalkLeft had a post up the other day about the predicament in which many.
LA Times:A federal judge in Los Angeles banned the U.S. Navy from using high-powered sonar in nearly a dozen upcoming training exercises off Southern California, ruling Monday that it could "cause irreparable harm to the environment."U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper issued the preliminary injunction after...
"Negging," ugh. What I don't get, though, is how would can get any action while calling yourself a practitioner of the "Venusian Arts." I mean, I would think that asshole.
I really don't know what to think at this point. Jim is certainly right so note that "you can bet that the people who insisted that TNR provide receipts for.
This reminds me of a Simpsons episode:A woman in Germany who has spent 55 years with part of a pencil inside her head has finally had it removed. Margret Wegner fell over carrying the pencil when she was four. It punctured her cheek and part...
I think we can all agree that Rudy Giuliani is a pathetic authoritarian who -- but for the law -- would have eaten his own children in the cribs where.
Heat indexes of 103 suck.That is all.
The Indian Navy is currently operating Viraat, a 48 year old former British carrier. To rectify this, they recently purchased a twenty year old Russian carrier. Unfortunately:Russia’s main military shipyard is at least three years behind schedule on a $1.5 billion contract to modernize an...
So I watched the video, had a great idea for a post, but then I scrolled down and saw that Matt beat me to Romney's non-sequitur response to Ron Paul's.
This love for Liptak is becoming something of a weekly tradition. He's just been writing such damn good columns.Today - behind the TimesSelect curtain - Liptak takes on laws that.