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Gang, some of you are going to crack on me hard for this, but I just took down the post from earlier today about the white kid being beat up on the bus by the black bullies. I used that...
In news from Alligator, the tiny Mississippi Delta hamlet has elected its first black mayor, Tomaso Brown, an Obama-inspired Pericles who ousted veteran Lord Mayor Robert Fava, an elderly area cracker who runs one of the town's only three busines...
The NYT has a link to the entire speech in which she made the comment about the "wise Latina" reaching a "better" verdict than "a white male who hasn't lived that life." I'm still a bit troubled by the remark,...
The current problems of Zoo New England, which runs Franklin Park Zoo in Dorchester and Stone Zoo in Stoneham, stem from Patrick's decision June 29 to veto $4 million in funding from the nonprofit's annual budget. That reduces the state appropriation...
Libertarian writer Shikha Dalmia says Ayn Rand was right about so much, but fatally wrong about an essential aspect of human nature: the impulse to selflessness and compassion. This explains why she's a cult figure for younger people, but eventually...
The WaPo interviews gay marriage activist leaders, who say they won't change their strategy going forward, despite the Maine loss. How is it they lost given that they had the media and the political establishment on their side? Well might...
"I bring you gladsome tidings," Julie told me in a late afternoon phone call. "Our Verizon contract expired in September." Meaning, of course, that we were now free to buy iPhones. Which I did, on the way home from work...
From an interview with acclaimed memoirist Mary Karr: I wonder if finding your faith helped your writing. You say in Lit, when you're cautiously becoming Catholic, "It isn't the ritual of the high Mass that impresses me. But the...
The linguist John McWhorter wonders whether we might be better off in the end with only one world language. Excerpt: Viscerally, as a great fan of Russian for many years, I am as uncomfortable as anyone else with the prospect...
