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So here’s an easy one that isn’t hardly worth the time: Did you ever notice that Fox News isn’t quite as “Fair and Balanced” or as committed to “We Report. You Decide” as they claim?
First of all I should say that I have nothing against biased news. I teach my students that a biased news [...]

I’m not going to get into the entire politics of prosecuting former Bush administration officials. Same thing with the efficacy of torture. You can argue that’s it’s useful, morally defensible, better than what we could expect from “them,” not even technically torture by legal definitions, etc. You can make up hypothetical situations where my family can [...]

Latest crime report from the Tribune: Look at young Byron Eugene Hamilton over there. Not that’s a high-achiever! Only nine and he knows how to drive and is leaning to drink and drive (albeit a bit unsuccessfully at this point). That might even be his own apartment listed in the crime sheet.
I bet his basket [...]

So all the fury aimed against Nadya Suleman—the woman who added eight children to her previous six—got me thinking about large families, just in time for a nice article in last week’s New York Times titled “And Baby Makes How Many? In an Era of Shrinking Broods, Larger Families Can Feel Attacked.” (Full disclosure: I’m [...]

As the title says, this one counts as getting a boot that you can’t much complain about. Following close on the heels of last week’s Columbia prostitution sting, where five young women were arrested for placing ads on Craigslist, comes this comment in the Tribune’s “Trib Talk” section, where random people can phone in random [...]

Okay, here’s my one and only gas prices entry. More than anything else, I’m tired of gas price complaints. It has turned into the new “How’s the weather?” Every time I open the paper or watch the news I read some dreadful tale of a retired couple who sold their home to purchase a $420,000 [...]

1. As part of my continuing disrespect for Oprah I’ll sadly reference her “Man Pregnant with Baby” fraud. Ummm, here’s the problem (and what keeps it from being a “miracle” despite the guy’s insistence): she may have adopted the identity of a man, but inside she’s still a female! This obviously seems quite obvious, and [...]

The one goes out to St. Patrick and all the great New York Irish politicians.
I had already been planning on doing an assignment on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton this Friday. The angle, connected to the anti-oppression literature of the 19th century, asks “Who is more likely to suffer from prejudice as a presidential candidate–a [...]

Here’s my favorite news story of the week: an ATM at the University of Missouri that was spitting out $20s instead of $10s. Instead of contacting the bank, the students called their friends and began lining up for a chance to get $100 instead of $50. (That’s assuming their college bank accounts looked like mine, [...]

Here’s a touchy subject: The recent marches in Jena, Louisiana. I teach my students a unit on fiction vs. nonfiction, but this story reminded me how difficult it can be to distinguish between the two in the real world. I’m interested in lingering racism in the South, and I encourage any political involvement (especially among [...]