Birmingham Blues

An Iowa county judge struck down the state’s ban on marriage equality yesterday and today the same judge issued a “verbal stay”.  But not before several couples filed applications for marriage licenses. Of course this is riling up the blowhards in thier state legislature who are renewing calls for a state constitutional amendment banning two [...]

According to Christopher Hitchens, what in the world today “stinks — indeed it reeks — of whatever horrible, buried, vicarious impulse underlies kiddie porn and child abuse”?
(a) The ongoing slaughter and displacement of Iraqi civilians.
(b) The bureaucratic hurdles faced by U.S. troops seeking to have their war injuries properly classified as disabilities.
(c) The inability of [...]

And it’s about something much more important than my little ego: the US attorney scandal, initially dismissed by Time’s Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Jay Carney:
Some bloggers just don’t understand how journalism works. Back in mid-January TPM Muckraker an offshoot of Joshua Micah Marshall’s Talking Points Memo began writing that U. S. attorneys were being fired by the [...]