Today begins the trial of Gordon Lee, owner of Legends, a comics shop in Rome, GA. (more…)

On Monday, June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court limited students’ First Amendment rights with one ruling and eased restrictions on campaign ads with another. In other words, they got it exactly wrong. Public schools should be places where information and ideas flow freely, whereas someone needs to stanch the influx of money that is poisoning our political system.

It is interesting that this is the work of a “conservative” court.

A comic-book artist named Tom Artis has died far too young at the age of 51, following a year-long battle with severe illness. As a result his family is in dire straits. You can help. (more…)

According to the Associated Press, scientists have identified a potentially habitable planet. (more…)

The massacre at Virginia Tech (and there’s no other word for it) is a tragedy of such stunning magnitude that it is beyond tragic, and an evil for which the word “evil” is inadequate. (more…)

Shock-jock Don Imus callously referred to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as ”nappy-headed hos.” Why? Because they’re black and some of them have tattoos. 

Good Lord. Talk about abject stupidity. (more…)

Keith Richards says he “snorted [his] father.” (more…)

This afternoon I put up a post angrily criticizing a woman in my area for certain remarks she made to the local media. Earlier this week she narrowly escaped being killed in a terrible car crash that claimed the lives of two others. She believes she survived the accident because God has a special plan for her. My initial reaction was one of anger, because her remarks implied that the people who died in the accident were less special than she. Jerry Chandler responded to my diatribe in a very thoughtful way and led me to reconsider. I decided I could not, in good conscience, leave the post up. In its place, I’d like to post what Jerry wrote. Take it away, Jerry: (more…)

Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter referred to John Edwards as a “faggot” recently. She’s been condemned by both Democrats and Republicans as a result.

I think we should go all Howard Stern on her ass. (more…)

Lampooning Bush was easy for me. I’m a Democrat. What’s harder to admit is that my “side” is just as much to blame for the Iraq War as Bush and his Republican buddies — and just as mealy-mouthed as well. (more…)