April 2009
25 posts
Six Degrees of Swine Flu →
I am Jack's sense of "he'll keep calling me" →
Breaking The Law, Suffering The Consequences →
St. Thomas to kill campus paper, debut... →
Conservative Colbert viewers not in on the joke →
Time Magazine examines success of drug... →
David Broder Really Needs to Hang it Up →
What Actual Tyranny Is →
Shared by Graham
thank goodness for Andrew Sullivan
While some of us were trying to absorb the full facts of the Bush-Cheney torture program, which rested on a claim of total…
Republicans are More Popular than Cuba, Less... →
Chris Bowers has an interesting post that helps put the current right-wing freakout over shaking hands with Hugo Chavez in perspective. If you compare the favorable/unfavorable numbers on the GOP…
Pot vs. Alcohol →
Retired Seattle police chief Norm Stamper: Over the past four years I’ve asked police officers throughout the U.S. (and in Canada) two questions. When’s the last time you had to fight someone…
Study Finds Pirates Buy 10x More Music Online than... →
A study from the BI Norwegian School of Management has found that those who download free music from services like BitTorrent are also the biggest legitimate consumers of downloadable music. …
New York Times Calls for Bybee Impeachment →
Via Faiz Shakir, a New York Times editorial argues that in light of his role as an author of several of the now-infamous “torture memos” congress should impeach Judge Jay Bybee:
These…
The Frequently Ticking Time Bomb →
Marcy Wheeler offers some close reading and observes that “According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was…
WSJ: Typeface Inspired by Comic Books Has Become a... →
A look at the prevailing enmity for the typeface Comic Sans. Interesting factoid: its designer, Vincent Connare, drew inspiration for this least serious of all fonts from two of the most serious…
The Hobby Economy →
Rob Horning marvels:
…gains in productivity derived from things like the internet aren’t showing up as more money in our pockets, and they are not showing up as corporate profit, but they do…
Dissent Of The Day →
A reader writes:
I’m an Army vet and a Navy family member
and prior to the invasion of Iraq I was one of the ragged, resentful,
and naive out on the streets demonstrating against the…
Waterboarded 183 Times In One Month →
But not torture. Oh, no, not, you know, torture. That is repugnant to America’s values.
Another Good Reason For YouTube →
Seth Rogen at 13.
Eric Holder v. America's legal obligations →
Can anyone reconcile these?:
Barack Obama, yesterday:
In releasing these memos, it is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from…
Ban on Drooping Drawers Faces Legal Challenge →
Community standards confront claims of free expression in a town’s ban on sagging pants.
8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography... →
Hamil wins 10 in a row and cancels Totally...
