From the WaPo:  A Georgia man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday for killing a police officer in 1989, even though the case against him has withered in recent years as most of the key witnesses at his trial have recanted and in some cases said they lied under pressure from police. Prosecutors discount the significance of the recantations and argue that it is too late

A couple of commenters have obliquely alluded to the strange and disturbing practice of “furring,” which is described by Metro.co.uk this way: Forget dogging – the new sex craze is ‘furring’. The practice sees people dressing up in giant teddy bear or other outfits and meeting in woodlands and forests for sex. Participants – sometimes called ‘furverts’ – also dress as rabbits, squirrels or cartoon characters. One furry – known

It’s the title of a famous piece on King Lear, but also pertains to the story of the just-graduated high school cheerleaders, who, perhaps because the driver of the car going to the summer home of one of the girls’ parents, distracted by a text message from the following vehicle, crashed headlong into a truck and died. Of course we know what will be said of this, with some truth:

About 20 years ago in my hometown of Milwaukee, there was a spate of abductions of black lantern-bearing statuary from residences throughout the City and its environs. Eventually, the terrorists, referring to themselves as The Porch Monkey Liberation Front, issued a list of demands to the City through the Milwaukee Journal. The mayor held fast, refusing to deal with them, but alas! it was many years before the abductees would

Terrifyingly asymmetrical. Dwarf Jihadi (artist’s representation) When Garbage Strikes

Nestled in the rolling hills of South Iowa, just above the state of Missouri, lies the tidy agricultural Town of Pulaski. Sociologists like to point to better known places like Muncie, Indiana, or Tulsa, Oklahoma, or Effingham, Illinois or many of the other G-dforsaken backwater hick toothless inbred microencephalic locations in flyover (very quickly, if possible) country as representing in microcosm the “conventional wisdom” (non-existent Supreme Being help us!) of

Several times a year, I come across an article that I feel absolutely compelled to recommend. Some months ago I stumbled upon Iron Shrink’s piece on the methodology of the “study” demonstrating that conservatives suffer from arrested psychic development that leads them to desire the strong-handed guidance of patriarchal authority figures. You’ve seen how this smug-inducing meme has circulated around the nets in various strains, up to and including the

Support the Burge. [UPDATE: As per Paul Z’s comment, somebody might want to put together something with this.] I sent an idea to Serr8d, and here’s what he came up with:

Keep in mind that I was appearing amid much personal turmoil — my son has taken a step backward in the potty training process and is dropping turdlets along the carpet like Hansel and Gretal might breadcrumbs — and go easy on me. Neo-Neocon, on the other hand, is superb, as always. The topics: “Rockstars for whatever,” and the “Incredibly shrinking content” — the latter for which I should have

I hope you are still with us. Things continue apace here at PW, even though I miss you. I hope that you have had a chance to enjoy Thor’s mighty gift of the monkey, even though I know you’ve been very ill. I haven’t always thought of you from moment to moment, but I believe that I’ve prayed for you every day since I learned of your illness. Everyone here