I had meant to write about the unwillingness of foreign governments to step up to Ecuador's offer to not drill for oil in its rainforest if the international community would.
It's hardly surprising that the populations of democratic nations are now resisting hosting gigantic sporting events like the 2022 Winter Olympics. It's a tremendous waste of money that does little.
I have a piece up at the Prospect about yesterday's modestly encouraging Eighth Amendment case: The fact that someone as clearly mentally impaired as Hall had his death sentence upheld.
In my last post I touched briefly on use of the phrase "the friend zone." Here's where I hate the term: Saying that women have put you in the friend.
The New York Post is a disgrace, in case you forgot.
Some Tuesday links re: the horrific California shootings... Ophelia Benson has some interesting thoughts on reaction to the reaction to the shootings here and here and here. Amanda Marcotte talks.
The long-term unemployed are doomed to poverty by Republicans who will not pass any bill extending unemployment benefits. This sort of Republican governance advances their program to recreate New Gilded.
You mean ending prohibition doesn't lead to massive spikes in crime and other conservative horror stories of what happens when you end the war on drugs? Wow, who could have.
