This shouldn't come as a surprise: prison is not a fun place to be for anyone, but especially not for women. Why is it so bad for women, you ask?Well, for one thing, because of drug war policies that have a disproportionate impact on women, more...
Sonar kills whales, but the Navy wants to use sonar in exercises to prove strike group readiness, because sonar also (indirectly) kills submarines. Some discussion of this came up last.
I agree with Ezra that Rush Limbaugh announcing a war against not only Huckabee but McCain seems significant -- barring some miracle like Fred Thompson being discovered alive the GOP.
One of the great traitors of the Civil War era, John Cabell Breckinridge, was cut loose into the world on this date in 1821. Born less than a year after the Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery in most of the Louisiana territories, Breckinridge came to despise...
I just sent off what I hope were the final revisions to an article that was graciously accepted for publication by a journal in my field. I wrote the initial.
Although Straight Talkin' John McCain has to be considered the real winner of any Republican primary, winner 1A has to be Rudy Giulani, who has them right where he wants.
Appropriately enough, on the eve of what might have been the most asinine debate moderation since the immortal horse-race wankery of Ted Koppel, Ygelsias perfectly captures the vacuous, pointless, information-destroying interviewing style of Tim Russert:Russert apparently meant this as a question. For some reason, we were...
Seems to me to be good news.
If only my computer would die....now. Now? Anything? Nope. Damn.
Hopefully most readers of this site are well aware at this late date that "judicial activism" in ordinary political discourse means absolutely nothing more than "judgifying conservatives don't like." Still, claiming that it's unacceptable "judicial activism" for judges to adjudicate breach of contract disputes takes things...
Wow."I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "But I believe it's a lot easier to change.
John Scalzi, via Ralph Luker:Jonah, dude, I don’t doubt that you misspoke. That’s pretty obvious. But, really. How does one — particularly one purporting to write a book on fascism.