Just a day after it was released earlier this week, the unnervingly violent anti-genocide music video, "Born Free," was reportedly deleted by YouTube. Actually, as Wired has confirmed, it was only "buried" to make it much harder to find. But the video was simply posted...
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One place where you're particularly likely to see "but would he/she be fun to have a beer with?" standards applied is Supreme Court nomination hearings and the surrounding discourse. You.
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2005: No personal information that you submit to Thefacebook will be available to any user of the Web Site who does.
It's problematic enough that Elena Kagan seems to be considered the clear front-runner for a Supreme Court nomination. What's worse is that she's not the weakest candidate of the three names that most commonly show up on shortlists. That would be Merrick Garland: Those prosecutorial...
Via Christopher Shea comes news that will surprise no one I've talked to since returning to the States:Irish drinkers lead the EU in the proportion of those drinking that have.
As Rob can attest, the poor guy has really bad luck with that stuff. Now he has to deal with this.
I'd have to agree that "how dare you respond to our laws that give the police virtually unlimited discretion to detain people for the crime of not having a passport handy by not coming to our economically suffering police state" isn't much of an argument....
That's what economist Benjamin Powell is doing at the Freeman, where he notes that Western observers who refer to Somalia's "failed state" status generally overlook the importance of Xeer, the.
Lithwick has a good article about the case of Charles Dean Hood, who was given a death sentence despite the fact that his prosecutor and judge were literally in bed.
I finally saw The Men Who Stare at Goats this weekend. A significant number of reviews from last year when it came out reference the epigram to the film, "More of this stuff is true than you think." However in my mind, the most important...
Not content, apparently, with commemorating people willing to kill hundreds of thousands in defense of slavery, Republican governors have now embraced gunpowder chic by asking their supporters to "Remember November.".
This from a new report described in the Army Times: Troubling new data show there are an average of 950 suicide attempts each month by veterans who are receiving some.