Picture for a Sunday afternoon, courtesy of the Blogwars crew… [Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin responds: “I

This months Al Sharpton Award for

This months Al Sharpton Award for

Looks like these Falun Gong techno-snipers — hell bent on broadening the Chinese political context — might be fans of Zmeckis’ Used Cars…

Looks like these Falun Gong techno-snipers — hell bent on broadening the Chinese political context — might be fans of Zmeckis’ Used Cars…

Mattel — the makers of Barbie — has obtained a court order to prevent the screening of a film showing

Two items from the April issue of Jane Magazine (which arrived quite mysteriously in our mailbox, given no one ’round these parts subscribes to it. But hell, grist for the blog mill, right?). First: According to the facility’s manager, residents of the De Gamles Hus nursing home in Copenhagen are gathering in the communal television room on Saturday nights to watch — not “Murder, She Wrote” or “The Golden Girls”

Don’t get me wrong: Though I’m an adopted son, I’m still profoundly pro-choice when it comes to reproductive rights (though I’d never call myself “pro-abortion” — a label I consider eminently unfair and often viciously misleading). Still, do we really need a

Don’t get me wrong: Though I’m an adopted son, I’m still profoundly pro-choice when it comes to reproductive rights (though I’d never call myself “pro-abortion” — a label I consider eminently unfair and often viciously misleading). Still, do we really need a

Smoke prohibitionists in Winnipeg — in an effort to protect children from “second-hand smoke” — got their wish when a Canadian smoking ban went into effect January 1 for establishments where minors are present. But as Charles Paul Freund points out in the latest Reason [print edition] “the consequences of the new law were not exactly what the lawmakers envisioned.” In fact, a “number of Winnipeg establishments […] opted to