January 2012
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“It’s long past time to rip those blindfolds off of the Lady Justice statues....”
– Glenn Greenwald
Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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“Our growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to...”
– Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison operator in America, statement to stockholders, 2005. In other words: ending the Drug War and eliminating federal mandatory minimum sentences is bad for business.  Adam Gopnik notes that CCA “spends millions lobbying legislators.”...
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 24th
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“When I think back on Joe Paterno’s legacy, the events of the last two months...”
– Former Nittany Lion and current Oakland Raiders offensive lineman Stefen Wisniewski gets a head start in the running for the most insensitive statement to be made in regards to the death of a coward
Jan 23rd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 19th
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Former GOP Senator Alan Simpson tells Fareed Zakaria that Republicans “like to give the saliva test of purity and then they lose and then they just bitch for four years. It’s an amazing party.” ZAKARIA:  Senator, when I was growing up and coming of age, I remember you were thought of as a pretty conservative guy.  I mean you were representing Wyoming, after all.  And to listen...
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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My Guantanamo Nightmare →
letterstomycountry: Lakhdar Boumediene tells his story: ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For seven of them, I was held there without explanation or charge. During that time my daughters grew up without me. They were toddlers when I was imprisoned, and were never allowed to visit or speak to me by phone. Most of their letters were...
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Oh ...
onefootinthegrave replied to your photo: Um .. Houston, your fans in the front row have a… they’re losing. it means they’re in distress. Then I suppose it won’t be the last time I see that.
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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“Over the next three decades Jordan would become a world-class collector of...”
– Thomas Lake’s outstandingly written and researched “Did This Man Really Cut Michael Jordan?”
Jan 13th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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Does corn count as an amber wave of grain? It would seem that Mitt Romney delivered his “rousing, impromptu” stump victory speech enough times before the Iowa caucus to know for sure.
Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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The 2011 Worst Prosecutor of the Year Award | The... →
jeffmiller: Please read this. Because everyone needs to know that things like this happen.
Jan 3rd
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December 2011
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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“If we’re going to have a real discussion about the place of public...”
– Charles P. Pierce, “Tebow’s Religion: Fair Game”
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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“With this defense authorization act, Congress will, for the first time in 60...”
– Senator Al Franken, “Why I Voted Against the Homeland Battlefield Bill”
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“You have to keep God first regardless of whatever trials or tribulations you...”
– Sam Hurd, then with the Dallas Cowboys, discussing what he was trying to stress in youth football camps two-and-a-half years ago. Now with the Chicago Bears, Hurd has been arrested on felony drug charges for allegedly seeking five to ten kilograms of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana per week...
Dec 16th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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“Explain to me how the league kills this Pau Gasol deal, but allows Kwame Brown...”
– NBA executive who had periodic talks with New Orleans throughout whatever you call that non-trade thing.
Dec 9th
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Dec 2nd
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November 2011
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Nov 29th
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Nov 29th
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"Bernie Fine today. You-know-who tomorrow." →
Gregg Doyel: Where [Jim] Boeheim went wrong — and by “wrong” I mean, “Where Boeheim should be fired” — is what he told reporters the next day, including this comment to the bad enough The Post-Standard of Syracuse: ”The Penn State thing came out, and the kid behind this is trying to get money.” That’s enough right there. Had Boeheim ended...
Nov 28th
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Nov 27th
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“Remember this the next time a legislator proposes some broadly-written new law,...”
– This Week in Prosecutorial Discretion | The Agitator Radley Balko, writing about the prosecutor who is bringing felony sex charges against a six-year-old for playing doctor. (via jeffmiller)
Nov 26th
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