Mike Duncan, John Ensign, and Tom Cole need to sit up and take notice because this is bad news for them. When a Democrat wins in a traditionally Republican Congressional district in northern Mississippi, it’s not a sign of good… Continue Reading
The California Supreme Court has announced that at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, it will publish its decision in the Marriage Cases. May 15, 2008, could be a very significant date in California’s legal history. May 15 is already a significant date… Continue Reading
Yes, it’s true: John Edwards will endorse Barack Obama tonight. So for my delegate tracker, I’ve moved Edwards’ delegates to Obama. But sorry, Obamafans: HRC isn’t dropping out yet. She promises, though, to work her heart out for “whoever the… Continue Reading
There is inescapable coverage today of what a bunch of ignorant racist hillbillies voters in West Virginia are. Consider this quote from today’s Fish Wrapper: “I’m going to write in Hillary on the ballot,” Jester said outside the IHOP, crushing… Continue Reading
A black bear wandered out of the mountains and through the busiest section of the commercial area of my city yesterday — his route, as reported here, took him right by my office before the authorities tranq’d him and took… Continue Reading
When you get hit with a cyclone, and a hundred thousand people die and another 1.5 million face starvation, you want a government that isn’t too proud or too ashamed of itself to let in outsiders. The Burmese people, however,… Continue Reading
A little bit less than 1,900 people died as a result of Hurricane Katrina, all but two of them in the New Orleans and southern Mississippi region. Yet the landfall of a cyclone in Yangon, Myanmar, which has killed over… Continue Reading
This is all over the news today. Although some have been talking about it for a while. Here’s the facts: Jeremy Hall joined the Army for the same reasons anyone does — a desire to serve his countrymen and his… Continue Reading
Tear down Dodger Stadium? Never! Fortunately, that’s not what Frank McCourt has in mind. I’m not quite sure what to think of his alternative, though. Nowadays I don’t get down to the stadium all that often, so the prospect of… Continue Reading
A grad student from Cal got arrested taking photographs and otherwise doing journalism in Egypt. As the authorities are hauling him away, he uses his cell phone to post a one-word message on his Twitter blog: “Arrested.” Tipped off to… Continue Reading