Good post by Philip Cohen on the absurd misdirection and dubious statistics surrounding the texting-while-driving panic. The parallel with making the famous crying Indian commercial about littering, rather than pollution/deforestation is apt. Driving, of course, is what's deadly here, and texting-while-driving, like anything that takes your...
I suppose it's too much to ask major newspapers to write stories about corporations that are more than fawning portrayals of brilliant CEOs. But this Washington Post piece on departing.
Even by the standards of the fast food industry, this is a gratuitous way to treat workers: If you're considering working at a Jimmy John's sandwich shop, you may want.
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis was all geared up to run for mayor against the odious Rahm Emanuel. She had a huge lead in the polls and it could have been an amazing victory. Unfortunately, pretty much the worst thing possible has happened: Chicago Teachers...
Shorter Republican Party: The fact that the writing of EPA regulations is not delegated entirely to the coal lobby is a worse scandal than Whitewater and Benghazi put together.
In 2007, North Carolina state House speaker Thom Tillis voted for a state resolution apologizing for slavery. Of course, in conservative land this is controversial. So he explained his vote.
You'd like to think that Gone With the Wind influenced fashion themes that romanticize plantation life would be dead in the fashion industry. This new fashion spread titled "Allure of Antebellum" suggest not. This is a brutal takedown of this incredibly offensive campaign.
I agree with some of Sawicky's critique of Krugman's Rolling Stone defense of the Obama administration. The point about the kiss up/kick down nature of the criminal prosecutions, in particular,.
My latest at the Diplomat takes a look at efforts to broaden the naval canon: Last week, the Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), on online think tank on maritime.
The NFL says it wants a team in Los Angeles. And maybe it does. But it may well not because if it puts one there, it loses its favorite tool to beat cities over the head until they cough up money for new stadiums. If a...
Everyone have a Happy Genocide Day (observed) today. 522 years ago, Christopher Columbus arrived in Hispanola. The terrible treatment of Native Americans began almost immediately. On Christmas night, his biggest.
Good: At least six members of the Sayreville High School football team were taken into custody by police this evening on charges in connection with a series of locker room.