When Miniskirts Attack…
Man, I don’t know how we missed this last week. Apparently Uganda’s Ethics and Integrity Minister (now that’s a ministry with an impressive mandate) is lobbying for a ban on miniskirts, because… wait...
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Ingenious New Anti-Abortion Argument
I am awarding today’s prize for Excellence in Bigoted Idiocy to Steven W. Mosher, president of creepy forcing-poor-brown-women-to-have-babies-they-don’t-want* organization, the Population Research...
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Things That Annoy Me, 8/20/09 Edition
Today my “war crimes” Google News Alert coughed up this gem from the New York Daily News: “Stop the world court from hauling Israelis off to the Hague” by Jay Sekulow and Brett Joshpe. My first thought...
View ArticleWhat Happens If the Foreign Aid Bubble Bursts?
A couple of months ago, I asked for your thoughts on why markets freak us out sometimes. Or, more specifically, why they freak us out sometimes, and not others: “I don’t think it’s an actual discomfort...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 4/30/10
Mother Jones highlights a photo series by Jonathan Torgovnik featuring women who had children as a result of rape during the Rwandan genocide. Unfortunately, I don’t feel like MJ’s headline, “Can You...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 5/14/10
John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, makes an ill advised cannibalism joke at the expense of the Tuhoe tribe, who were already holding a grudge over Key backtracking on an earlier government...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 6/19/2015
A ray of light at the end of a very dark week: North Korea announced today that its scientists have cured AIDS. (Also Ebola, MERS, and SARS.) According to regime mouthpiece Korean Central News Agency,...
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