Inhofe is on Another Planet
(via TPM)
On Perfection and Hell
I think a lot of people wake up every day striving for perfection – the perfect job, the perfect spouse, the perfect home, the perfect body, the perfect day. But what do we mean by that? What is perfection? When we talk about perfection, the common ground we generally have is to think of a …
Is Solitary Confinement “Cruel and Unusual”
After reading Atul Gawande’s essay in the New Yorker, I’m convinced that solitary confinement is cruel and unusual. It wrecks the psyche of many prisoners and leaves them unfit to ever fully reintegrate with society: One of the paradoxes of solitary confinement is that, as starved as people become for companionship, the experience typically leaves …
Barney Frank Rocks
“The bill under consideration is 5-1/2 pages long,” he said. “I believe even the gentleman from Texas could have read it by now, and if the gentleman from Texas has not been able to read this 5-1/2-page bill, I will talk long. Even if you read slow, you’ll get it done.”