This op-ed about the growing use of physical restraint and torture in public schools should outrage us all: Among the recent instances that have attracted attention: Children in Middletown, Conn., told their parents that there was a “scream room” in their school where they could hear...
As I waited to the replay on the key call in tonight's Yankees/Orioles game, it was pretty clear how it was going to come out, given that the first base.
The always useful site Executed Today details the execution of Thomas Granger, a Puritan executed on this day in 1642 for bestiality in Plymouth Colony. William Bradford's description of the.
The mysterious conservative poet known only as "Taboola" posted this masterpiece at the National Review: If you can't see the tiny print, that reads: You may like: Jon Voight 'feeding' daughter Angelina Jolie 10 eye-catching looks From last night's MTV. Is Karolina Kurkova the most attractive...
As a bookend to Salon inexplicably publishing a ridiculous argument asserting that Mitt Romney is a harmless moderate who if anything is more liberal than Barack Obama, the man who.
And now I know the answer thanks to Roscoe Bartlett, a Republican congressman representing Maryland's 6th District: "Not that it’s not a good idea to give students loans; it certainly.
...Vladimir Putin: "Group sex is better than one-on-one because, as in any sort of collective work, you can shirk off." -- Russian President Vladimir Putin, quoted by The Guardian, recalling the orgy performed by a radical art group to protest against the election of Dmitry Medvedev in...
Also known as my latest Alternet piece. In part: At first, Americans did not protest much against the end of the income tax, but with skyrocketing income inequality of the.
That seemingly innocuous statement is from the "Inspiration" subsection of the Wikipedia entry on Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain. I write "seemingly innocuous" because it points to a problem.
This fall, I am teaching graduate students for the first time. I am teaching our senior capstone course, which graduate students can sign up for. My course in on the history of the American West. Usually 1 or 2 graduate students sign up, but I have...
The Honorable Jacqueline Hatch I'll say. Prosecutors contended that [Officer Evans] drank eight beers and then drove himself to the Green Room, where he flashed his badge in an attempt.
Although I do not have children, when I was integrated into the gigantic family of my in-laws, I was exposed to the American Girl Doll phenomenon. The dolls' little historical.