So, it was my birthday two months ago
And yet none of you readers have sent me a micro-pig. What’s going on? Are you waiting for Christmas?
...read moreShackling Pregnant Prisoners in Labor Found to be Cruel
In other news: sky is blue and grass is green. I worked on this issue for a while, and was delighted to see this decision. Ridiculous that it should have ever come up for debate. Anyway, sorry for the length here, but this letter isn’t posted on the website. I received it a few days [...]
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Friday Random Ten – the Panama edition
You probably didn’t notice with all the great guest-blogging going on, but I was away for a while at the end of August and beginning of September, galavanting around Panama and Colombia. I’m still in the process of uploading the hundreds of pictures I took, but I figured FRT was a good place to throw [...]
...read moreName ‘n Shame
Meet the senators who voted against Al Franken’s amendment which punishes contractors that “restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.” Alexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Bond (R-MO) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Ensign (R-NV) [...]
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Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Nice work, O! There are, of course, some skeptics on the right and on the left (and guess who I think has a bit more of a point). Yglesias rightly points out that Obama has a lot left to accomplish when it comes to promoting peace — brokering an Israel/Palestine peace deal, normalizing relations with [...]
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