Jail is for Good Samaritans, party crashers, and poor people
Image from Times Online UK People on my TV won’t shut up about these two idiot party crashers. I know most of you have been trapped in the same room as your families for Thanksgiving, and probably have been forced to watch 24-hour news stations in lieu of interacting with distant cousins, so by now you probably know more details from this totally trumped-up story than you do about the ratification of the Constitut

If Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn did Meet the Press
Image from NY Daily News The intellectual holocaust known as the Sunday news shows (Meet the Press, This Week, Fareed Zakaria’s GPS, FOX News Sunday) have been criticized for their protectionist treatment of beltway platitudes. If the week’s discussion concerns Afghanistan, then Meet the Press

Lamar Alexander says something really racist even by GOP standards
This week, Lamar Alexander (R-TN) — apparently unsatisfied with the GOP’s moderate steps of submerging the healthcare debate into a pit of hysterical accusations and blatant lies — upped his game and launched into a risible rant about Medicaid being a “Medical ghetto.” You know, to spice things up. Because, as Jed says, “what would a healthcare debate be without some good ol’ fashioned race-baiting from the GOP?” If one can fight through the horror house of latent and overt racism jam-packed into Alexander̵

University of California: where students pay more for less
UCLA students protest tuition hikes (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Chaos descended upon the University of California campus this week when thousands of student protesters faced off against armed police after UC’s Board of Regents approved a 32 percent increase in student fees, and also a 15 percent midyear tuition hike (it’s still unclear if raising tuition midyear is l

Christian leaders unite to teach youth intolerance
James Dobson Image via Wikipedia A group of 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that “could be used to compel their institutions to participate in abortions, or to bless or in any way recognize same-sex couples.” Citing Martin Luther K