Two excellent pieces on the Duke Rape case from two of my favorite penis-free bloggers:  first, the always-interesting neoneocon, who reflects on the changes in rape law and the attitudes of society towards rape and personal responsibility over time; and second, the marvelous Gail Hapke, who breaks out the literary allusions to deconstruct those who use pet sociological theories as a quasi-religion. Granted, these two women are suffering from the

Forgive me if I sound ungrateful, but I was expecting, you know, a lesson about the meaning of life—not to be scolded for failing to bring you “a bagel with a schmear.”

From the Kansas City Star’s Jason Whitlock, “Imus isn’t the real bad guy”: Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem. You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality. You’ve given Vivian

From Bloomberg News: Russian police arrested opposition leader and former world chess champion Gary Kasparov today along with more than 100 supporters and several journalists at an unsanctioned protest against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Thousands of riot police swarmed streets around central Moscow’s Pushkin Square, the historical focus of democracy protests, after the city’s authorities pledged the same display of police force that greeted the last protest in the