Dambala has something to add to yesterday's post. I'll just repost his comment in its entirety with annotations added in parentheses for clarity. (quoting me in regard to the possibility of federal prosecutions) "- I'll believe such things when I see them." I hate to sound conspiratorial, but I am s...

Eli has a made a cute joke this morning. In case you missed the context, at the end of the day yesterday, the City announced that it was suing six contractors it found to have kept insufficient records of a little more than $200,000.00 paid to them through NOAH. (If you need more NOAH context at thi...

My wife is putting together a video for her brother's wedding, so I purchased Adobe Premiere Elements 7, at the recommendation of Blake Caraway.  After some frustration that the serial number I was granted did not work, I tried to get it to work on my laptop just to be sure I wasn't screwing it...

Why is our justice system designed in such a way that witholding public records related to small-time municipal corruption will get the book thrown at you but conspiring to piss on the US Constitution and enable torture probably won't even get you disbarred?...

A SPECIAL AQUIDNECK INQUIRER ENDORSEMENT "now's the time": FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: BARACK OBAMA As we watched Senator Barack Obama speak to a large crowd in Jacksonville, Florida, a city with which some of the staff of The Aquidneck Inquirer has roots, the great "Now&#...

JANUARY 20, 2009 Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address Following is the prepared text of President-elect Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address, as provided by the Presidential Inaugural Committee: My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have b...

Two new releases by female jazz singers prompt me to consider their public personas. Remember Robert Preston's great number "The Sadder but Wiser Girl for Me" from The Music Man? I'll refresh your recollection with some lyrics: No bright-eyed, blushing, breathless baby-doll baby Not for me. That kin...

A commenter responds to Hilzoy. "Going Galt" is the conservative version of "Moving to France." Lots of people talk about it, but no one has the balls to actually do it. Actually that's not quite right. I've had to suffer far more stupid white liberals threatening to to "Move to Canada" than to Fran...

Among the observations Christian Roselund makes in this excellent essay about Huey Long's impact on Depression era politics is the disturbing absence of a similar focus of pressure from the left on Obama. Obama’s presidency is very different from Roosevelt’s not only in that he has already embra...

Author’s Note: This post at Feministe–about the Catholic Church’s excommunication of the mother of a nine-year-old girl who became pregnant with twins, apparently after having been raped by her step-father, and the doctors who performed the abortion that ended the girl’s preg...