An interesting post to pull out of Buridan's Ass on the definition of oppression. Buridan argues that being an oppressed group requires (a) being a group and (b) being oppressed and neither of these notions is well-defined, indeed, both are self-defined (or claimed by some to...
Last year, I discussed the risibly spurious civil rights arguments Target was using as a pretext to not fire pharmacists who wanted to interpose their atavistic sexual morality between women.
Within the span of five months in 2004-2005 remakes of two "classic" science-fiction series entered their regular seasons. The first regular episode of the "re-envisioned" Battlestar Galactica aired in October.
The recent story about how not having access to Plan B is likely to lead to more abortions reminds me about this telling statistic, which appeared in the last Harper's index:Percentage of U.S. abortions in 1973 and 2002, respectively, that took place in the first trimester:...
Most of the evidence suggests grounds for cautious optimism about the prospects for some sort of deal with Iran. Already, some (admittedly obscure) right-wing bloggers are crying foul over the.
In his writings on society and education in first decades of the 20th century, Hans Reichenbach argued that structural change would most likely have to be led by the emerging.
Linda Hirshman, guest-blogging at TAPPED, has an interesting follow-up post about the debunked Newsweek scare story on marriage. One downside of the fact that most of the women got married is that many of them had to give up their careers. In light of this, Hirshman...
Matt's argument here can be engaged with on a couple levels. Certainly, there's no question--even granting that it generally takes at least 2 viewings to sort these things out--that this.
I say we follow the lead of the Senate GOP leaders. Their move to bring up gay marriage now is fantastic. Ok, it's so transparently political that's it absurd, but.
Shorter Captain Ed: You know what would be really neat? A constitutional amendment that would guarantee that judges would never make decisions I disagree with (you know, "mischief" involving marriage like Loving v. Virgnia.) I can't see any problem with that! And the conservative base obviously...
A few months ago, I posted on reports of a new study purporting to show that sequential lineups, in which a witness is shown one possible suspect after another without.
Julia: "Shorter Glenn Reynolds: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to object to it."Say this for the man: he continues to provide real.