Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have apparently ended their engagement: It’s surprising because in an interview just last month with FOX’s Gretta Van Susteren, Bristol said the 19-year-old Levi is a hands-on dad and that they planned on marrying after finishing their education. But in a new interview with Star Magazine, Levi’s sister Mercede Johnston Read More
For the first half of the season, I was sure that LBJ was the MVP and had finally supplanted Kobe as the best player in the game. Then Kobe started doing Kobe-ass things after Bynum went down and suddenly I wasn’t so certain. But yo. Any serious conversation about MVP (and yes, best basketball player Read More
A look at how each state voted in the presidential election, based on the income of the voters, via Andrew at FiveThirtyEight: The five income categories I used in the analysis are: 0-20,000; 20-40,000; 40-75,000; 75-150,000; over 150,000. The graphs above show the estimates for the highest, middle, and lowest of these five categories. I Read More
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We’re a little a lot late putting this one up. Last month’s book focused on a family still feeling the reverberations of a violent dictatorship in the D.R. even as staked out new lives in the United States. universeexpanding suggested that our second book club pick should explore similar themes as they played out on Read More
Brad Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia, is somewhat infamous for being one of the sociology department’s dedicated religious conservatives. Wilcox tends to view religious belief as a net positive, and is generally something of an advocate for measures which encourage religious belief in the United States. And while this isn’t a Read More
Jon Stewart goes all the way in. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.792613&w=425&h=350&fv=autoPlay%3Dfalse] more about "Tell ’em Why You Mad, Son.", posted with vodpod
Via Ezra: More at Nancy Pelosi’s Flickr (!) page.
With two felony counts. The report in the court documents is gruesome: According to a search warrant written by police Det. Deshon Andrews, the assault began when Rihanna picked up Brown’s phone as the couple drove away from a pre-Grammy party in Beverly Hills. The singer saw a long text message on Brown’s phone detailing Read More
Adam at TAP: The NAACP has been walking a tightrope on gay rights. Polls show that African Americans overwhelmingly oppose gay marriage, but much of the high-level leadership of the nation’s oldest civil-rights organization opposes legal efforts to deny gays the right to marry. Last week, the national office of the NAACP leapt into the Read More
