Well now.  This is an interesting attempt to override the Constitution by way of an easy emotional appeal.  From The Houston Chronicle, “Mayor wants Brazoria to outlaw the ‘n-word’”: Brazoria Mayor Ken Corley wants offensive use of the “n-word” to be punishable by a fine of up to $500 in his town. “It’s not a particular problem in Brazoria,” Corley said, “but it’s a national problem.” —Ah.  That makes sense.

proteinwisdom: Say, you’re in Iraq, right?  indcbill:  i hope so, otherwise the soldiers over here are shooting at the wrong brown people proteinwisdom:  Do me a favor, then, would you?  See what you can find out about this Maliki memo? indcbill: sure.  when i’m not going on night time raids through raw sewage with the iraqi army indcbill:  and taking headers into rivers of shit indcbill:  crap up to my

Bob Owens at Conferedate Yankee has received, from an anonymous tipster claiming to be inside Bagdhad’s Green Zone, a memo purportedly from the office of PM Nouri Al-Maliki directing “official speakers or the media advisors” within the Defense and Interior ministries to freeze out the media with respect to security questions. Owens has scanned copies of the memo available at his site, both in the original Arabic and in an

Regular readers of my posts certainly know that I’m a big fan of Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom.  He’s insightful, funny, experimental and challenging.  Recently, he’s been experiencing difficulties stemming from his activities as a blogger, though, and clearly has his priorities right when he says that he needs to take care of his family first. When, after a hiatus of several months, he recently returned to full time blogging,

The Isaiah Washington apology tour continues: “I can neither defend nor explain my behavior. I can also no longer deny to myself that there are issues I obviously need to examine within my own soul, and I’ve asked for help. “I know the power of words, especially those that demean,” the statement continued. “I realize that by using one filled with disrespect I have hurt more than T. R. and

Cathy Young has filed her final weekly column with the Boston Globe. This minor tragedy silences one of scant few rational, objective voices writing for that publication. Quoth Jeff: Young is one of my absolute favorite columnists, a woman whose even-handedness and integrity are unassailable, and one whose willingness to buck orthodoxies that need bucking places her among a vanishingly small number of public intellectuals whose opinions, though we may

“I’m having my breasts redone because of HD,” she said.