Even though we see her having sex with a 15-year-old boy. Q : Do you ever have any trepidations about approaching controversial material like abortion in "Revolutionary Road" or statutory rape? Winslet: I'm so so…
So wrote Justice White in Coker v. Georgia , and this week, the Supreme Court takes up the question whether the death penalty could nevertheless be constitutional when the victim is a child. Those facts alone are a powerful argu…
Title: "The Loneliness of the Pro-Hillary Blogger." Topics and times: Why Hillary should stay in (until June, anyway) (07:36) Is Hillary a wounded wife, or does she just play one on TV? (06:27) Ann defends making fun of…
Amanda Marcotte's morality: The underpinnings of the moral angst about abortion — the idea that a woman has no right to pry loose a flag a man has planted in her (even if he agrees with her decision, as most men in this case …
NYT reports: In a 162-page complaint, Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans sought redress for what they described as “one of the most chilling episodes of premeditated police, prosecutorial, and scientific misconduct …
The NY Sun has an editorial on the arrest of Vang Pao: We could barely believe our eyes. Vang Pao and the others arrested, according to the AP, were picked up during a sweep by more than 200 federal, state, and local agents. The…
The decision to name the school after this individual was controversial, but surely, now, the School Board will reopen the matter. From the Capital Times: After learning of the charges late Monday, School Board President Arlene S…
Robin Givhan writes about what the Rutgers basketball team wore to receive their apology from Don Imus: matching red and black warm-ups. What did it mean to dress like this? The young women had been insulted as a team and they …
So, we've established that "naked" is funnier than "nude," and now I feel like this is a subject comics have riffed on hundreds of times. I'm trying to find some good examples of this. Oh! Wikipedia h…
NYT film critic Manohla Dargis writes about the movie "Hounddog," saying something that resonates with me: “Hounddog” and the media storm that accompanied its world premiere on Monday expose the contradictions that gri…
The movie "Hounddog" -- about which such a stir was kicked up -- is a dog : "Hounddog" is from the overheated and overacted school of Southern drama, filled with stereotypical characters, pseudo-poetic dialogu…
David Brooks's column yesterday began this way ( TimesSelect link ): This is a tale of two predators. The first is a congressman who befriended teenage pages. He sent them cajoling instant messages asking them to describe the…
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle and his Republican challenger Mark Green both spoke at a Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce last night: Doyle decried the use of “senseless social issues that distract and divide us,” and said the s…
From CNN: Bibi recounted how she was awakened by a shriek as Ahmed put his hand to the mouth of his stepdaughter, Muqadas, and cut her throat with a machete. She said she looked on helplessly from the corner of the room as he the…
The Badger Herald reports : Wrongfully incarcerated for 18 years, Steven Avery received $25,000 in compensation from the Wisconsin Claims Board Thursday.... DNA evidence successfully exonerated Avery from the rape conviction in …