Shorter Verbatim Republican congressional candidate: "In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians. What Parks did was courageous. What Mr. Robertson did was courageous too."...
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This is still excellent news: Pamela Karlan, a noted voting-rights expert and professor at Stanford Law School, will join the Obama Administration shortly as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge.
Earlier this week, Tom Waits told you a nice bedtime story. Tonight he provides you a useful entomology lesson. Good for any Friday night.
I've always found the old maps with imagined sea monsters in unexplored places particularly fascinating. Marina Warner has a long essay in the New York Review of Books about them. The ocean is so interesting because it's so close yet so impossible to explore, especially...
I am not the resident LGM expert on these issues. But I have to think that marriage equality in Utah of all places is basically the tipping point for it.
Holy effing crap. Oh, what the hell? Here’s a little teaser... Pajama Boy is a Low-T liberal who wears a "this is what a feminist looks like" T-shirt and flinches.
Shakezula reminded me about this fun story about the DC Metro system. It’s funny because it’s true: literally every moment I’m awake I’m thinking about shoes and wanting to share the gospel of shoes with anyone in yelling distance. Sometimes I just yell at random...
In an important decision, Supreme Court of Canada has struck down several anti-prostitution laws. The Court did not rule any regulation of sex work unconstitutional, but any regulation of sex.
This is so good in almost justifies Politico publishing that risible "D.C. left me" piece we discussed yesterday: Youngman’s indictment of Washington journalism is an incoherent malange. He confesses to.
Some of you may be having holiday parties at work or with your friends. I have one wish for you--that your holiday party is as awesome as that of the International Woodworkers of America holiday party from 1972, documented in this photo I discovered in...
Various Republican flying monkeys are personally attacking a staffer who posed for a picture, because his picture was used in a promotion for the Heritage Republican health care plan that.
Has become more enchanting: New Mexico became the latest state to legalize gay marriage Thursday as its highest court declared it is unconstitutional to deny marriage licenses to gay and.