Ten years ago today, the first post appeared at Lawyers, Guns and Money, then housed at lefarkins.blogspot.com. The first post, by djw, was a classic “Test.” We then managed a half dozen other posts in the first day, running a gamut of topics that, for...
Month: May 2014
It seems that Nic Kristof was more than a dupe of Somaly Mam's lies. Sounds like he was complicit to a significant degree: Many of her accolades, in turn, can.
Huh, it's almost like criminalizing sex work just drives it underground instead of gets rid of it. Who knew.
I don't understand why China would force this guy to serve seven months in one of its prisons making Christmas lights for the American market. This is technically illegal since the U.S. has banned the import of prison labor-made goods ever since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff...
I didn't know that the reactionary contrarian Armond White had ended up at the National Review, but it's certainly logical. (His proverbial cocktail party isn't even apocryphal!) I love Roy's.
Allosaurus is interesting not so much because of its size--which, like all the big therapods, was impressive--or its skull or teeth, but because so many of the "monster therapods" we.
Coal companies are openly cheating the system that monitor for coal dust that leads to black lung, misleading Mine Safety and Health Administration monitoring programs. There are so few good jobs in West Virginia and rural Kentucky that they can easily intimidate most employees into...
The energy industry continues its war upon the people and ecology of Louisiana: Last summer, an independent government authority responsible for flood protection for the New Orleans area sued more.
The following is a guest contribution by Gordon Sparks, who has been broadcasting Plymouth Argyle's matches for thirty years. Gordon's been an on-air presenter with the BBC since 2001, and.
I turn my book into my editor in 36 hours. I am delirious. The only thing keeping me going is The Gay Shoe Clerk. Ankle. Hot.
Simon Marks has a long expose demonstrating that Cambodian anti-sex trafficking activist Somaly Mam lied about her own life story and trained children to make up stories about their supposed.
This post is one of what may be several about Elliot Rodger and his crimes. I read Rodger's manifesto, My Twisted World, this past weekend, and have been thinking about.