We should perhaps celebrate the real MLK, as opposed to the complacent defender of purely formal equality that conservatives would prefer to imagine him as: At the end of his all too short life, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to realize that the full...
Month: January 2012
Bemoaning the loss of the "land of the free": Dishonesty from politicians is nothing new for Americans. The real question is whether we are lying to ourselves when we call.
Irrelevant Jon Huntsman dropping out. Every progressive blog and twitter feed reporting incessantly. No one talking about Indiana right to work a person to death law. Politics as entertainment far.
California ranchers are unhappy that the federal government wants to replace branding cattle with electronic chips placed in cattle's ears. The chips make a lot of sense on many levels. It's not the 19th century anymore. It's also far less cruel to the animals. But...
A new survey of the world's most deadly cities show that the top 33 are in the Americas, with the vast majority along the drug highway in North America and.
Caitlin Flanagan seems to think so: The second reason Metcalf was left flat by this line of reasoning is that he isn’t a woman, and to really love Joan Didion—to.
Apparently Aaron Rodgers's head is somewhere in the middle of his back. This game is, though, an object lesson about why officiating never really "costs" any team a game; the Packers have benefited not only from a farcical roughing-the-passer call to negate a 3rd down...
1. North Carolina call center workers are organizing with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Sitel treats their employees like early 20th century sweatshop workers, with the classic bathroom problem.
It's almost enough to make me think that the Noble Concept of Amateur Student-Athletes is just a massive exploitative scam. When I say the "NCAA's" values, this also means the.
SOPA is really, really horrible legislation. Much more detail here.
Saturday's game is a good lesson in making predictions based on intuition. The numbers suggest that Alex Smith has become a very serviceable QB, and despite my skepticism played very.
I had some thought on the new Afghanistan NIE at RT yesterday: