I like Joe Gandelman (turns out Joe didn’t write this, Michael Stickings did, and since I don’t know him from Adam, I can’t very well say I like him), but this sort of attitude is everything that is wrong with this country and everything that is wrong with discourse in the United States: There certainly …
Archives for October 2005
NYT Magazine
The NYT Magazine is chock-full of good things to read this morning, including a piece on Hillary (Mrs. Triangulation) and this great piece on Bill Buckley’s ’65 mayoral race.
The Post Roe World
The Times also looks at a post-Roe world, should it be overturned: Even if the court restricts or eliminates the right to an abortion, the often-raised specter of a return to back-alley abortions is not likely to be realized, said Dr. Beverly Winikoff, president of Gynuity Health Services, a nonprofit group that supports access to …
The NY Times or the Onion?
Sometimes the headline to a NY Times piece says it all: NO WAY OUT: To More Inmates, Life Term Means Dying Behind Bars By ADAM LIPTAK Driven by tougher laws, thousands of lifers are going into prisons each year, and in many states only a few are ever coming out. Exactly what did they think …
Stormy?
What ever happened to Stormy? *** Update *** Ok, we found her. We also seem to have lost Sojourner and Nash.
Mountaineers Fall
Well, that went pretty much as I feared. Va. Tech 34, WVU 17.
Creationism Update
Some pretty important testimony in the Dover trial: “Intelligent design” is vastly similar to creationism and should be taught as religion, not science, a Catholic theologian testified Friday, on the fifth day of a trial over whether the concept belongs in a public school science curriculum as an alternative to evolution. Georgetown University theology professor …