The only thing that's surprising about Bob McDonnell's lionization of Virginia's Confederate heritage is the ferocity of the reaction. Here at LGM we've been beating the Treason-in-Defense of Slavery Heritage card for quite some time; having Bob Owens as an "enemy" kinda makes it easy....
Month: April 2010
I'll have an article about the NPR coming out tomorrow at TAP, but suffice to say that I'm not particularly impressed with the Obama NPR. Every policy document requires compromise,.
Consider these images the inevitable footnotes to Jill's post at Feministe: (more…)
Shorter Robert Samuelson: Anyone who disagrees with my right-wing views on fiscal policy is irrational. And you're especially crazy if you think that there are any moral issues involved in people suffering from preventable illnesses because of America's grossly inequitable and inefficient health care system....
Coates: A lot of you have e-mailed me to note that Virginia governor Bob McDonnell has decided to honor those who fought to preserve, and extend, white supremacy. I don't really have.
This Friday, I'll be leaving my home country of Kenya to visit England for this conference. I've never been to England and am a nervous traveler, so you can do.
Well, sheeeeeeeeeeyit. It's Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Heritage Month again, so I suppose we need to remind people like Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell what the "shared history" of Virginia's Confederate heroes actually entailed. Here's a choice excerpt from a speech given at Virginia's February 1861 secession convention by...
Reading this definitely takes me back to my Seattle days at the turn of the last decade, when one spoke and read from many people who seemed willfully blind to.
Due to Duke's tragic victory in last night's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament final, C. Betley has won the LGM Tourney Challenge. Mr. or Ms. Betley should contact me (e-mail available.
As the election has now been called, expect a lot of such breathless pieces describing the fact that the British "electoral system" could produce a result where one party receives a plurality of the popular vote, and yet the other party may actually form the...
East: 1. NYY 2. BOS (*) 3. TB 4. BAL 5. TOR I don't like it either, but let's start here: the Yankees were the best team in baseball last.
It seems very likely that yesterday's disaster in West Virginia was at least in part the result of corporate negligence: For at least six of the past 10 years, federal.