Lock Up The Liquor Cabinet and Hide the Handset: Ginny Thomas Reaches Out and Touches Anita Hill

By now you’ve likely heard about Ginny Thomas, budding Teabagger superstar and wife of SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas, drunk-dialing calling Anita Hill at 730am yesterday and demanding that Hill apologize for, er, telling the truth about Justice Thomas’s infamous untoward advances: “Good...

Three Cheers For Institutional Corruption

The NY Times: A secretive network of Republican donors is heading to the Palm Springs area for a long weekend in January, but it will not be to relax after a hard-fought election — it will be to plan for the next one. Koch Industries, the longtime underwriter of libertarian causes from the Cato Institute...

Gray Lady’s Paywall Will Allow Links from Blogs, Social Media

MediaPost provides details on the New York Times’ upcoming “metered” paywall — and it provides some comfort for bloggers/social media mavens: [T]he so-called “metered model” will allow readers who are referred from third-party sites such as blogs, social media networks and...

Recruiters Instructed to Accept Gay Recruits

Impressive even if only temporary. The Department of Defense announced today that it is instructing military recruiters to accept enlistees who identify themselves as gay in order to comply with a court order to stop enforcing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. According to a spokeswoman, recruiters have...

INSIGHTS: The Most Poignant Piece of Prose You May Ever Read

I picked up John Scalzi’s novel Old Man’s War one day because I was looking for some good Science Fiction and noticed that it had received a Hugo nomination for best novel in 2006. It was only after completing five of his works that I discovered his blog Whatever. Well yesterday he posted on his...