
Shocked, shocked I am to see good intentions go off the rails You know, it seems like only yesterday a particularly odd combination of Americans was aligned on at least one point…the […]
Shocked, shocked I am to see good intentions go off the rails You know, it seems like only yesterday a particularly odd combination of Americans was aligned on at least one point…the […]
I want to buy a gun. As a kid, I loved westerns — those with Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, and John Wayne. They were heroes — good guys in white […]
If 17 matter here but not 50,000 there, it’s not about kids Status update: Flu: day the next. Facebook: still a parade of sanctimonious headlines. Running out of fucks to give. Yes, […]
Arming teachers doesn’t protect students, it turns schools into one-stop shopping for would-be school shooters.
Good arguments require good facts My job as self-appointed Gadfly Supreme, Pedant General, and Defender of Truth, Justice, and /or the American Way is simple. I generally try to put my own […]
On Monday, New York Post columnist Fredric Dicker made one of those huge gaffes for which conservatives are famous. Rival New York Daily News reports: The remark came while Dicker was discussing […]
Far from reassuring the public, open carry ― the right to carry unconcealed weapons ― just might scare Americans more than crime itself. As you’ve no doubt heard, the latest preoccupation of […]
One they view as the cost of living in a free society, the other as war. “Not that the events weren’t shocking and brutal,” concedes Scott Atran at Foreign Policy about the […]