Any of you follow the story of Debbie Almontaser and the Khalil Gibran school when it was all happening last year? If not, you missed a shitstorm of hatemongering and aspersion casting. All over a school named after a Lebanese Christian pacifist. The NY Times has...
For those wondering how painfully lame an anti-Obama Dylan parody would have to be to get an endorsement from Lisa Schiffren and Ann Althouse, the suspense is regrettably over. Come.
M. LeBlanc finds Obama using some wishy-washy rhetoric about parental involvement laws. I do think her headline is a little unfair; the closest to an outright endorsement is "possibly for.
Though I'm not a British historian, this is supremely cool. As Sharon Howard explains, the new Old Bailey site not only allows folks to search the records from more than 200,000 trials held at London's main criminal court, but it also includes digitized versions of the...
McCain calls Obama Insensitive to Poor People, says the AP.And of course McCain, being a champion of the poor, is in a perfect position to throw this stone.
This, for lack of a better phrase, is some disturbingly fucked up shit.
In early 1972 the heavy cruiser Newport News deployed to Southeast Asia. Newport News was one of the last of the big gun cruisers, commissioned in 1949 and carrying 9 8-inch guns with an automatic reload system that allowed the cruiser to fire ninety shells per...
In an article in today's New York Times, Newark (NJ) mayor Cory Booker compares trying to reduce recidivism rates and get ex-offenders jobs to "running on the beach." It's hard.
In recognition of the day, there was A Gathering of Shitheads in Mississippi:A 21-gun salute boomed Friday afternoon at the Nathan Bedford Forrest memorial in downtown Hattiesburg.In an early observance.
(Late) Friday Depraved Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson. I had held back from running this one for a long time, but it's time to answer Americaneocon's challenge.
Fantastic:When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending.But minutes into.
Henry, displaying the proper technique for wrestling a bear, makes friends with one dressed in a pumpkin suit.