[Updated: sorry for the mucked up sentence. Sometimes blogger and Firefox fight, and my posts are the casualty. It’s fixed now.] Literally. Further proof that smart women actually do want to do harm to misogynistic and violent penises around the world.
Month: November 2007
In the midst of defending once again the single worst argument in the pro-torture arsenal, Alan Dershowitz has finally been reduced to a sad parody of himself by claiming that torture — if good
Rudy Giuliani has been endorsed by Pat Robertson, which according to smart conservative commentators is a “big plus.” A depressing, if unsurprising, thought. Not only is Robertson an arch-
For years, proponents of the death penalty have argued that it acts as a deterrent. This claim has been damn tough to prove, probably because it’s wrong. What’s ironic, though, is that the prohibitively large expense of prosecuting capital cases may successfully deter “tough on crime” prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in all but […]
David Leonhardt: At only 27 of the 40 garages did mechanics tell Mr. Schneider that he had a disconnected battery cable, the very problem to which he had pointed them by saying his car didn’t al
I see that Derek Jeter’s defense has become so wretched that the Gold Glove has finally gone to a good defensive shortstop instead. However — because God forbid we go a year without a popu
Silly Matt; if Musharraf really is like the Shah, won’t it just give us the opportunity to demonstrate that, were it not for Jimmy Carter, a few well placed bombs would have forestalled the Revolution and saved Iran for… er, “democracy”?
I mentioned during the Althouse/Valenti dustup that justly earned the former a Golden Wingnut Award that comments sections were awash in claims that Clinton was a serial sexual harasser, groper, etc.
This is true. I think the exclusion is because I don’t really think Norbiz will be gone for long…
Well, we American lawyers have been put to shame by our peers in Pakistan. After President Pervez Musharraf (one of Bush’s A#1 allies, don’t forget) suspended the Constitution, dissolved the high courts, and got rid of private television media, the lawyers got mad. Despite being beaten by plainclothes and uniformed police officers and arrested in […]
With 90% reporting, its Beshear 59%, Fletcher 41%. Democrats also win Attorney General, Auditor, and Treasurer. Fletcher had some serious corruption problems that hurt the entire ticket, but it’
D’Ho in fine form, courtesy of Max Blumenthal: Pacing the stage like a drunken circus clown impersonating some bygone demagogue, and standing beneath a massive image of a woman being shot in the