Month: March 2012

If you are a young black male, such as Trayvon Martin and you make the mistake of walking home in a gated community in Orlando, FL, with bags of skittles concealed in your pockets, you will be shot and killed. Not by the police,...

I’m traveling this morning. So, talk among yourselves and try not to shoot anybody in the face.

I’m still a little disconcerted that Little Green Footballs, which I used to consider the biggest cesspool on the intertubz, is now an oasis of sanity compared to Fox News. There is a moment in the movie Game Change when...

I watched Game Change last night. If you want a good review, read Charles Pierce. He nails it. The acting is superb. The script is just okay. John McCain gets the kid-glove treatment. Sarah Palin is torn to shreds but her debate...

Ugh. It sounds like officials are still trying to sort out what happened in today’s massacre in Afghanistan. But to state the obvious: wars, especially endless, pointless ones, breed these sorts of incidents. And...