Sarah Palin will speak at a Safari Club International convention in Reno, Nevada, later this month. The Safari Club is a hunting and gun-rights group, and despite what most conservatives want to believe about liberals, I don’t have a problem at all with hunting. The number of soft-hearted liberals who protest hunting for hunting’s sake […]
Monica Potts
Monica Potts is a former senior writer at The American Prospect. She is working on a book about low-income women in her rural Arkansas hometown. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Vogue.com, The Daily Beast, The Trace, and Democracy.
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Treating the Mentally Ill.
The Giffords shooting has raised a lot of questions about how we treat the mentally ill. The alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, exhibited signs we would recognize immediately as constituting a mental illness but appears to never have been treated and was able to get his hands on a gun. That’s led to calls for […]
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Teaching the Hardest Kids to Teach.
The New York Times yesterday published a story about a new school in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn that throws a few classrooms of children together in one room for an active, group learning environment. The founder, Shimon Waronker, developed the idea with several other graduate students at Harvard. It draws its inspiration, he […]
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Why Call Them Green?
Having a definition of “green jobs” doesn’t bring us any closer to understanding how they fit into an economic recovery.
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Rep. Giffords Has a Husband!
Via Sociological Images, three news writers — one on the Fox News website (above), one at the Orlando Sentinel, and one at the Galveston County Daily News — really, really wanted you to know that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was wounded Saturday in a shooting that killed six, was married to an astronaut; they all […]
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Political Violence.
I suppose it’s possible that the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords — who was out speaking with constituents, some of whom were harmed, in her Arizona district when a gunman in his 20s reportedly walked up to her and began shooting — had nothing to do with this: It’s possible. But whenever a politician is […]
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Here Comes the Next Financial Crisis.
According to The Washington Post, the Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that two foreclosures should be voided because the banks didn’t have the proper paperwork. This is the biggest decision yet in cases where banks had used robo-signing and other shortcut methods in their rush to issue new mortgages and securitize them. The decision could […]
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Republicans Busy With Urgent Polar Bear Bill.
Jill Richardson from La Vida Locavore has a great roundup of all the bills the new Republican House busily introduced on its first day. The list is mostly a flurry of bills to undo the major accomplishments of Obama‘s first two years; namely repealing health-care reform (there are several) and financial regulatory reform. Among the […]
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Throwing Like a Girl.
You’re watching You’ve Got Joe & Mika From ‘Morning Joe’. See the Web’s top videos on AOL Video In the video from AOL, Joe Scarborough and his Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski make fun of new House Speaker John Boehner for his frequent crying and President Obama for throwing “like a little girl.” It’s disappointing […]
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These People Are Not Journalists.
Yesterday, Keith Kelly used his Media Ink column in the New York Post to comment on a Daily Caller story that wasn’t, which accused The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer of plagiarism. Questions remain, of course, about who was accusing Mayer and, therefore, supplying the reporter with the “story,” and Kelly’s piece quotes DC editor Tucker […]
