The Republican Party continues its implosion, this time by cranking up the war on women in North Carolina. In New Hanover County, county commissioners rejected a state grant for family planning services. Why? Chairman Ted Davis said he thought it was a sad day when “taxpayers...
It's a start.
Given the day's rather bizarre turn here, it seems like a good enough time to remind all of you with Netflix account that Traffic in Souls, the ridiculous 1913 film.
The idiocy never stops. See also.
Elevating a comment from the Erik's post: The scholarship on sex trafficking portrays a much more complex picture of the sex industry. Pointing to this complexity is not a.
Good luck with this fellas: Newt Gingrich has a crazy idea. Sources close to his dwindling campaign say he is in talks with Rick Perry in hopes of getting him.
Diane Ravitch rips Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in the New York Review of Books, grading him an F on every front: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan loves evaluation. He insists that everyone should willingly submit to public grading of the work they do. The Race...
Callum McCormick has a very thoughtful essay on the legacy of Hugo Chavez from a leftist perspective. The upshot: While a defeat would for Chavez would be a setback for.
Laura Augustín has an interesting piece at The Naked Anthropologist critiquing men like Nick Kristof who go around the world playing the role of the good white man saving brown.
I maintain that rising gas prices are the biggest threat to Obama's reelection. New polling by the Washington Post suggests this is probably correct. I do think that, no matter how high gas prices go up, Obama will have plenty of ability to fight back on...
So apparently my Ducks have been excluded from the NCAA Tournament based on nothing more than the fact that the Pac-12 was truly awful this year. A disgrace, if you.
I've decided to get out of the academia game while the going's so abysmal there's a chance that hope might peak behind a horizon, and like many a former liberal.