This'll get your blood boiling. Upon waking up this morning, I read this headline in the NY Times: Despite DNA Test, Prosecutor is Retrying Case.That's right. A Mississippi prosecutor is retrying a man, Kenny Brewer, a mildly mentally handicapped laborer who served 15 years for a...
Mr. Richard Cohen. (But his elementary school teachers think he's funny! And his mother thinks he's cool!) More here.
Amanda - in a new gig at RH Reality Check - reminds us why we have got to get rid of abstinence only programs. I wish I could have the.
All indications suggest that the Royal Navy will press ahead with its plans to build Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales, a pair of 65000 ton aircraft carriers that will be the largest ships the Royal Navy has ever operated. I have to wonder, though, what...
If you haven't seen Mister Trend's Random Music Observations, you really should treat yourself (the first installment is here). They're pretty much as you would expect -- pithy, one- to.
For nearly forty years, a prophecy -- known only to the clerics of Outer Wingnuttia -- has foretold the arrival of the One True Redeemer, a Chosen One who will.
So, what, we're letting just anyone post at TAPPED now?...and the fact that he got an Atrios link for this is going to make my campaign to count Atrios-linked posts as publications for tenure purposes so much more difficult...
Until Bob Somerby gets a book contract, this fine Vanity Fair article on the history-changing media war on Al Gore will do. In particular, what's important about the piece is.
This is a 747. Seeing a 747 is not an uncommon experience if one hangs out at airports, unless your preferred airport-of-hanging is Bluegrass Airport in Lexington. At Bluegrass, the.
Since we're transcribing conversations today, here's an illuminating, cautionary moment for anyone who might, say, want to remain gainfully employed for a while. After three hours of teaching, and while retrieving the day's 40th cup of coffee, this is pretty much the chat I had with...
Given that pregnancy has become oh-so-trendy, we had to know this was coming: a line of clothing for laboring women. Yes, you read that right, clothes for women in labor..
Reading this Michael Gordon piece, I'm struck by the extent to which the strategy of allying with Sunni tribes amounts to a renunciation of US state-building aims in Iraq. Put.