It was just a fleeting image, one we saw on the Fox News Channel, from the mass gathering in Chicago awaiting the victory speech from President-elect Barack Obama. But it was a telling one — the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a face in the crowd (though a highly recognizable one), with tears streaming down his face [...]
The post by Jamie Kirchick about the “Nutroots” looks a little bit silly. Do not know the aim he was trying to achieve. You have a chance to get introduced with it and express your own ideas: I bet at least half of the netleft are failed professors, over-educated literary theory PHDs, who make themselves [...]
Sometimes people pay attention on something that is touching, but you do not have enough time to analyzed it. So forgive me I’m late on those Times stories where a heap of comedians sit around guessing why Barack Obama won’t write some jokes for them. I think that it is your job is to make [...]
I sort of doubt that birth control vs. Viagara is a man vs. woman issue. It’s more of a generational issue. Heterosexual women with older partners benefit from Viagara as much as heterosexual men with younger partners benefit from birth control. The legitimate argument for McCain’s stance is the following. We want birth control (and [...]
I’m sorry that you took my thoughts completely out of context. It’s meant as a personal anecdote to the essay by Paul Graham, ‘Why Nerds are Unpopular’ taken from my admittedly limited life experience. The fact that I am responding to someone else’s essay while stating that I am from central, PA should be the [...]
PBS taught my sister and me to read long by preschool. For many years it was the only channel I watched. My aunt worked for a major publisher in the city and sent me a book every year as a child. In a strange twist of fate, I now have a corporate discount to a [...]
I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve always understood the idea to be: if the police can search your house without a warrant (or whatever), and still use the evidence in court, whyever would they bother with warrants at all? Why wouldn’t they just say: “oh dear, we forgot to get a warrant before we searched [...]
School officials in Terrebonne Parish are considering a policy that would require all commencement speeches to be in English. The proposal comes after Hue and Cindy Vo, cousins who were co-valedictorians at Ellender High School, delivered part of their commencement addresses last month in Vietnamese. Cindy Vo, the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, spoke about high-school [...]
In a nationwide poll of police by the National Institute of Justice, 61 percent said officers “do not always report even serious violations by fellow officers,” and 67 percent said whistle-blowers were likely to be “given a cold shoulder.” So why should bad guys and ordinary citizens pay heed when police and prosecutors lecture them [...]
Without commenting on whether my skin color makes me a mark, saying it’s just a matter of being street smart is a little too cute. I grew up on the Upper West Side pre-gentrification; I’ve lived in West Philadelphia and on the South Side of Chicago (safest place I’ve ever lived); and I now live [...]
