In the wake of Romney's 47% comments in 2012, the much needed recording of private Republican speeches continues, this time catching Lindsey Graham making some choice remarks: According to the CNN report Wednesday, Graham confirmed the veracity of the recordings. Graham was speaking to the...
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Since Michelle Martin's excellent essay produced expected victim-blaming reactions, it's worth noting that Anna North is also excellent on the question of why victims of this kind of abuse feel.
Brother Pierce makes two eminently fair points here. First of all, while there's no excuse for a Democrat losing a statewide election for federal office in Massachusetts, Republican governors have.
On the Japanese version of Ringu and why she's having so much fun up there. Sample: The most interesting visual element in this shot is the perspective implied by the camera placement. By partially obscuring the view of Reiko Asakawa, Nakata suggests that this might be a...
To follow up on my earlier post on prominent ex-CBC radio host and twelfth-rate topical songwriter Jian Ghomeshi, there are now 8 women who have accused him of sexual assault.
Should the Mariners ever get to a World Series, I hope it's not against Madison Bumgarner and Bruce Bochy. (Pedro against Cleveland in 1999 is the analogy that came to.
Let's hope it's good. The Bumgarner question is particularly interesting; since I'm rooting for Kansas City I hope he doesn't get into the game with a lead.
It says plenty about the Republican Party in 2016 that Bobby Jindal sees his path to the Republican presidential nomination going right through the gym. I’m a congenital pessimist, so.
Why, it's almost enough to make me think that Republican vote suppression has nothing to do with "fraud": But this doesn’t explain the Republican-led push to end or limit same-day.
I'm not saying -- I'm just saying. I'll be damned if this doesn't make me want to call for someone's head on a stick.
No band in America makes people with decent taste want to punch themselves in the face like Florida Georgia Line, the Nickelback of country music. Exhibit A: Ebola causes you.
Thanks to everyone who participated in my "Actually Ethics" meme contest. I loved all your entries, but ultimately someone had to win the contest, and someone did: Sly. I don't.