Before I read the full transcript of Geraldo Rivera's comments on Trayvon Martin's murder, I was shocked that someone on FOXNews had acknowledged the existence of white racism. Think of it! People on FOX were discussing racism instead of being racist. And the racism they...
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I've expressed my reservations before about the idea of a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall and scoffed at the protests by his granddaughters that part of the.
The President of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund has passed away. R.I.P.
Charlie Pierce is right-on, as usual: My track record on this guy is pretty clear — and, occasionally, the topic of some hilarity around the home office. This is what I do know about him. John Edwards was the only Democratic presidential candidate since Jesse...
I feel like this Alessandra Stanley preview of the upcoming first episode of Season 5 of Mad Men is a predictable as a Pitchfork review of a band's 4th album.
Here's the key passage in Judge Melvin Schweitzer's decision, granting New York Law School's motion to the dismiss the class action suit brought against it by nine graduates for publishing.
The Homer Simpson school of logic finds another Republican adherent, in this case an apologist for racist vigilante killings of people who aren't even guilty of anything. Apropos to my related point, I submit these metaphorical 2x4 blows on behalf of the exoneration of said...
Who knew that gluttony on the scale of 18th century royalty would lead to major health problems?
I have a piece on the latest "sovereign immunity" atrocity up. One additional note: in a footnote, Ginsburg reiterated (correctly) that Congress should be able to abrogate "sovereign immunity" in.
For no particular reason, I give you the Palm Beach Post, 16 April 1962: At least one of the five Cubans seized here recently with a record supply of cocaine may have been a Castro agent sent here to spread addiction among local exiles and...
Since last week I dared suggest that there could be problems with white people running around the world saving brown people from themselves and was thereby proven to be objectively.
Apparently, the Jets might be saved from their incompetence by their own incompetence.