Lincoln-Douglas this was not, but Ann Coulter vs Bill Maher tonight at the Wang Center was certainly entertaining. I didn’t know the format of the event, and I wasn’t even sure if it was going to be a debate or not. How do you debate Ann Coulter? How do you debate Bill Maher for that mat...

A guest post by Lurker : Deputy Chairman of Islamic Movement in Israel: Killing Hamas Police is worse than Nazis putting Jews in ovens [Source] "This isn't war, it is genocide. Killing police officers, people who preserve the security? To come to a police center and blow it up? These aren't people t...

The first line of Jemele HIll's ESPN.com article showed promise: "I thought it wouldn't bother me. I thought I would be OK. Turns out, I was as wrong as Skip Bayless." But somewhere down the line, she lost her way. A reader tipped us off that in Hill's anti-Celtics screed, she used a line that liken...

The New Yorker just published a ridiculous, hand-wavy essay questioning the importance of factual truth in history and providing some sliver of refuge to fake memoirists like Margaret Seltzer even as it badmouths them. The essay is littered with questions, and they all have the sort of "everything i...

Two months ago a cousins forwarded an email asking me to sign an e-petition requesting Google to edit search results. The heart of the matter was that googling for the single word "jew" returned, as the first sorted result, a link to a site full of outright anti-Semitism. Conspiracy theory, moral ou...