Taking A Dive
You Can't Say You Can't Play
I found this story out of Kansas City, making the rounds of the blogs today, appalling: It’s the only way Tory Bowen knows to honestly describe what happened to her. She was raped. READ MORE >>
Pirates!
News from the high seas: Pirate attacks are up 75% in the last several years. According to a RAND study, "there's now at least an attempt at a pirate attack nearly every day." This is half-hilarious, half-worrisome. Far from the lovably mercenary Jack Sparrow paradigm, these pirates proliferate small arms, strong-arm weak Indian Ocean governments, pushing past lax coastal security (even post-9/11) to pinch READ MORE >>
Hillary Clinton: Saturday Afternoon Live
I'm here at the beautiful National Building Museum in Washington with what by eyeball appear to be a couple thousand Hillary Clinton supporters, waiting for the candidate to make the last speech of her historic campaign. Clinton, of course, is expected to endorse Obama, "suspend" her campaign and to say, well, goodbye for now. READ MORE >>
Dap Politics
On the lighter side of my earlier post on race spokesmanship in American politics--the accompanying photo has exposed a seam in the almost-smooth transition to multi-ethnic, if not post-racial news coverage. Here, again, "the dap": READ MORE >>
The End Of The Affair
Gaming Emissions In The Eu
For six months, Europe has been surreptitiously floating a revision to its early and enthusiastic dedication to the Kyoto treaty, which it embraced in 1994 and ratified in 2002. The pledge then committed Europe to a reduction in emissions below 1990 levels; today, however, folks at the European Commission--worried about the body's sluggish pace on its emissions goals for 2020--are trying to move the goalposts, to reducing emissions based not on READ MORE >>
Death And "plastaxes"
Rev. Michael Pfleger, Uncut
Bumiller Bites!
I had sort of resolved to stop blogging about the election, but couldn't let this one slip. Liz Bumiller, a fine reporter, has been hoodwinked by John McCain's willful misreading of Barack Obama's dings at Hillary Clinton's past gun use. The relevant graf, from her Week in Review piece: READ MORE >>
