Consider it a jumpstart on Tuesday. No time for small talk or lame jokes. Just links: Six months into recovery efforts, Haiti is still a mess. BBC spotlights the plight of orphaned children. Racewire reminds us that Haitian women have been victims of a “second wave of disaster” that includes “poverty, sexual violence and political Read More
As a blogger who lives so far outside the Beltway that I can see Cuba from my condo, there’s little chance that any e-mail I’ve sent on a super-secret listserve would garner much attention. Which is too bad for the rest of you because, wow, I’ve said some pretty awful things about Thembi. However, Dave Read More
Hey, Negroes. We’re kinda like a big deal. At least, according to The Root. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You’re far too kind. Hold your applause. This is your blog, not mine. And now for more of what you all love: 1. President Obama refuses to protect our borders, complete an electric fence with Read More
If ever there was a state that deserved Senator Al Greene, it would definitely be South Carolina: Also, we could probably stand to tone down our self-righteous indignation at Greene and the voters in South Carolina’s Democratic primary. The Senate can’t be that exclusive. After all, “Diaper” David Vitter has a seat in the chamber Read More
To call it a retirement is a farce: long, long, longtime White House correspondent Helen Thomas was forced out of her front-row seat. And now, at long last, there will be peace in the Middle East. But more seriously, we can hold these dueling ideas in our heads: what the 89-year-old Thomas said was ridiculous Read More
It’s summer, unofficially, which means months full of man-eating sharks, tabloid-y political scandals and missing white girls. But not quite yet. There’s plenty of stuff to gnaw on as you slide back into your desk chair, hopefully a few pounds heavier after some mean-ass barbecue, and daydream about being outside. For your consideration: A few Read More
As part of a study conducted over a couple of minutes in the employee cafeteria and during a smoke break in the parking lot, The Washington Post concluded recently that “most women … cross their legs when sitting.” But Givhan is wrong, wrong, wrong. Everyone knows that a proper lady crosses her legs at the Read More
Good news. We’re joining the civilized world again: Society changes. Knowledge accumulates. We learn, sometimes, from our mistakes. Punishments that did not seem cruel and unusual at one time may, in the light of reason and experience, be found cruel and unusual at a later time; unless we are to abandon the moral commitment embodied Read More
In little more than a couple of months, dozens of people – most of them cable-news pundits, D.C. media elites and a number of A-list bloggers – have become experts on the legal record (or lack thereof) of Obama’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan. And if not that, then we’ve got a peanut gallery’s Read More
The unfolding petrochemical disaster along the Gulf Coast is really not a surprise, except in the swath of its complete and total mayhem. Paul Krugman says we should have seen it coming. And maybe that’s true. But Jesus … we only get one planet. At what point do we completely f*ck it up beyond repair? Read More
