…we began now, and over the next ten years, installed speed bumps on every road in the nation with a speed limit now above 35 MPH? This includes interstate highways, everything.
What would a gradual slowdown like that look like? (It could be a jobs program, building speed bumps!)
There’s no God-given or even Constitutional […]

Punched in the face, kicked down stairs, bitten, starved and beaten - women involved in prostitution in Ireland are increasingly at risk of violence. Does this rise in sexual aggression identify a link between degradation of women and the universal availability of hard pornography?
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Short, but very nutrient dense. Hat tip Lou.

Stan Goff
The first sweetened cup of hot tea to be drunk by an English worker was a significant historical event, because it prefigured the transformation of an entire society, a total remaking of its economic and social basis. We must struggle to understand fully the consequences of that and kindred events for upon them was […]

On August 1st, the US House of Representatives Committee confirmed that for over three months, in violation of EPA’s official guidelines, the US Coast Guard had fast-tracked 74 permits giving BP the green light to “carpet-bomb” the Gulf. All told, at least 2 million gallons have been dumped into the Gulf, sprayed over the seas, […]

When the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division rolled out of Iraq last week, the colonel commanding the brigade told a reporter that his soldiers were “leaving as heroes.”
While we can understand the pride of professional soldiers and the emotion behind that statement, it’s time for Americans — military and civilian — to face […]

Pamela Geller, the once-obscure right-wing blogger known for peddling hateful, wildly over-the-top rhetoric (she once claimed that Barack Obama was the bastard stepchild of Malcom X) and for pulling stunts like taping a harangue against Muslims while clad in a bikini, has parlayed the anti-mosque hysteria sweeping across America into mainstream media attention just in […]

This letter is not a cry for help, but an attempt to inform you about what has really been going on in Moscow in recent days. It is written from the viewpoint of the father of two small children, from an apartment one hundred meters away from the Leningrad Highway section of the Moscow Ring […]

In the months after Barack Obama won the presidency with near-total support of Blacks and the white Left, a New York Black activist was fond of telling audiences to pay attention to the First Black President’s face, not necessarily his actions. According to this theory, the president had to pretend he was in synch with […]

Hat tip to Stephen Duplantier.
These two peices by Christopher Correa and Laura Vanderkam remind me that not only are lawns a destructive practice, but that many people in the US live in neighborhoods under the iron fist of homeowners associations that require lawns and lawn maintenance. Then there is the weight of custom, and […]