Obama on Trump: Don't Be an Idiot
In a blistering condemnation of Donald Trump’s political platform, President Obama told graduating seniors at Rutgers University to be smart and not dumb on Sunday, NPR reports.
Supreme Court: It's OK for Cops to Guess Wrong About What the Law Is
A robust 8-1 majority of the Supreme Court ruled today that, contrary to folk belief, ignorance of the law is a perfectly good excuse—as long as it's a cop who's claiming ignorance. The case, Heien v. North Carolina, dealt with a car owner who ended up charged with cocaine trafficking after a police officer, who…
A new Pew Research study finds that 48 percent of Republicans continue to believe that "humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time," while 27 percent of Democrats continue to deny that species change and adapt.
Big Brother bigot Aaryn Gries says she is not a racist and that she didn't realize her racist jokes were offensive because "no one had expressed that I was taken that way." Then she voiced them on TV and...plunk plunk plunk plunk (the more you know).
FBI Islam Lessons Call 'Mainstream' Muslims 'Violent, Radical'
The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn't have a great relationship with the American Muslim community. Maybe because the agency is teaching its employees that even mainstream Muslims are violent terrorist sympathizers?
Boehner Stands Strong in Defense of Stupid People
One of the fundamental freedoms guaranteed to us in the constitution is the freedom to think whatever the hell we want, about anything. It's constantly under attack, from teachers, and schools, and so-called "facts," but at least one politician still believes in it:
Are Men Losing Their Balls? (Yes)
Men are forsaking strippers in favor of suckling pigs at their bachelor parties. Minivans are now supposed to be "macho." Social scientists say that men are "redefining success." Yea, redefining it to suck.
Errol Morris on 'Unknown Unknowns'
The great Errol Morris has kicked off a five-part series on ignorance at the Times.
No One Follows the News
Most shocking finding in this poll? 76% of Americans have no opinion of Bernie Madoff.
Village Voice Boss Honors Pal With Racial Slur
Mike Lacey, the pugnacious chief of Village Voice Media and overlord of alt-weeklies across America, is known to be a man not afraid to speak his mind. In fact, he's the self-proclaimed "asshole in charge." So attendees at a Phoenix Society of Professional Journalists awards dinner last Friday might have expected…
Hick City Politicos Play Perfectly To Yokel Stereotype
Folio Weekly, the alt-weekly in Jacksonville, Florida (where I used to work), ran a story this month about the BDSM scene in Jacksonville. Their reporting on sexual practices that are not licensed by the Baptist church outraged a Jacksonville City Councilman, naturally, and he's made a formal call for the city to…
