What Palin captured, with her belligerent “Never Retreat, Reload” war cry, looks back to our lying invasion into Iraq (indeed ten years of foreign policy) plus today’s street stalking of Trayvon Martin, violent politic rhetoric and increasing, take-no-prisioners manias dominating the right’s politics.
Michael Vick and the problem with forgiveness
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has conditionally reinstated former Atlanta quarterback Michael Vick, who was convicted of running a dogfighting ring in 2007. Vick served 23 months in federal prison, followed by two […]
Confronting our inner vigilante (part 2)
Is taking justice into your own hands ever justified? I Don’t Like the Looks of This Early one recent morning, I boarded a subway on the 1 line, which runs north and […]
Confronting our inner vigilante
Is taking justice into your own hands ever justified? (Part 1) If you’re not from New York, the name Bernard Goetz may not ring a bell. The expression “subway vigilante” might though. […]
Porn stars must present their papers
By Martin Bosworth Future movie auteurs in the vein of Seymore Butts, take note: In order to produce your next penetrating panoply of puerile pleasure, you need to provide a complete list […]
Scroguely Works: The Saint’s Getaway
The Saint’s Getaway by Leslie Charteris, first published 1932, 250 pages, ISBN 978-1558820845 For the song and the sword and the Pipes of Pan Are birthrights sold to a usurer But I […]
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