Good catch by Media Czech on the consequences of anti-government speech. Turns out that some forms of violent radical extremism are more equal than others…
Month: May 2011
My inaugral post as an LGM rookie (we lost it in the changeover: here’s the cross-posted version) was entitled the “Top Twelve Emerging Human Security Issues of the Next Decade.” Tho
Ah, Online Integrity — the blogosphere’s short-lived and even more risible companion to the Euston Manifesto. It was important for one reason: as the parody site almost immediately got mor
This depressing trial should remind us that the real world is nothing like what goes on on BHL’s head. Or, rather, resembles it all too well. Rape v. flat tires: a helpful Venn diagram for Republican legislators. I think Shafer has a point here, in that I doubt that Fox News (which largely preaches to […]
Very sad news. I will admit that, as someone whose love for baseball started with the Dick Williams-era Expos, that Carter was never one of my favorites. His rah-rah and theatrical hustle, while not a
I recognize that I’m carefully flogging a dead horse here, but things are moving apace. The Guardian has a good live blog on the ongoing patheticness. The news today is that both the English
When Republicans take power, they generally try to make the electorate smaller and more affluent.
The Ohio State University: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
In my Notice and Comment thread joejoejoe requested a pre-hiatus blog post on disaster relief: Can you talk about the some of the current trends in disaster response? Is there a conflict between the t
Read David Axe’s fantastic account of the Pima County SWAT raid: The May 5 assault by a Pima County SWAT team on an address on Red Water Street, outside Tucson, was meant to apprehend a suspected member of a “rip crew” — a team of heavily-armed thugs, working for one of the cartels, that steals drugs […]
Rock out. With Jonathan Richman covers.
This wouldn’t have been my first choice: John F. Kennedy will have a second aircraft carrier named after him. The Navy announcement came Sunday, on what would have been the president and World W