Criminal neglect
Can someone explain why someone who leaves their kid in the car is automatically charged with child endangerment, but letting your kid sail around the world is not a problem? Sphere: Related Content
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What is vulgar?
This is just another installment of an ongoing debate I have with a large part of the population, because I don’t think there needs to be any apology for “vulgarity.”. After all, who determines what is vulgar and what isn’t? The answer is that “the community” collectively determines that. But that is just sidestepping the [...]
Looking at racism
One of the best discussions of modern racism comes up with this salient point: Racism, as all isms go never completely goes away for it is a condition of moral decay, spiritual deficiency and part of imperfect human nature. What has changed is in recognizing the isms as well as societal policing of certain behaviors [...]
No one owns the image of the Messiah
Linsay Lohan, never before confused with Jesus Christ, is apparently such the very image of the Messiah that Bill Donohue is worried that Catholics will…well, it isn’t exactly clear what he’s worried about. Bill Donohue, head of the Catholic League, told Politics Daily: “Not only is the pose inappropriate, the timing is offensive.” (Catholicism’s most [...]
The war on…truthiness in media
Chalk this up as the misleading aimed-at-inciting-the-fundies headline of the day: Mayor: School boss should apologize to boy who drew cross The story goes that a boy drew an image of Jesus on the cross and was sent home for it. Or, as this story lies: Taunton Mayor Charles Crowley called School Superintendent Julie Hackett [...]
Notes from all over
Frank Rich writes that Obama has helped the GOP eat its own: The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The movement’s undisputed leaders, Palin and Beck, neither of whom [...]
I agree with Clarence Thomas
Why be a bully? Thomas — who hasn’t asked a lawyer a question during arguments in nearly four years — said he and the other eight justices virtually always know where they stand on a case by reading legal briefs before oral arguments. “So why do you beat up on people if you already know? [...]
Straining a point
This is hard to believe. Maggie Gallagher, a conservative who fights against marriage equality, is taking her opponents to task for being mean and hateful. This is a bit like Charles Manson saying that other people don’t have the proper respect for humanity. Not that Gallagher is, in any way, similar to Manson. It’s just [...]
A warning before its time
It seems like only yesterday when my good friend Rosi Efthim issued a general warning about Ted Kennedy’s legacy. In reality, it was way back on Friday – two days before Ross Douthat made her warning necessary. Douthat pits Ted Kennedy against his sister, Eunice. This is entirely, apparently, without ever talking to either Kennedy [...]
