Newspaper Censors the Word ‘Vagina’ in Vagina Monologues Ad (Jezebel)
Yes. This really happened. Well played, Ashland Daily Press.
You can’t make this stuff up
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Daily Archives: June 24, 2013
How is this murder?
Mom Charged with Murder After Daughter, 5, Shoots Self (ABC News)
A New Orleans mother has been charged with murder after her 5-year-old daughter shot herself in the head while home alone in a locked bedroom.
Laderika Smith, 28, was booked Sunday on charges of second-degree murder, after the girl was taken off life support hours after her mother returned home to find the girl dead, police said.
“[Smith] locked her daughter inside the residence for a short period of time while she went to the store,” New Orleans Police spokeswoman Hilal Williams said in a statement.
While her mother was out, the girl discovered a loaded .38-caliber revolver and shot herself.
This is horrible beyond belief, but . . . Murder?
American Heritage Dictionary:
noun
the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
Merriam-Webster:
the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought.
AP:
Murder is malicious, premeditated homicide. Some states define certain homicides as murder if the killing occurs in the course of armed robbery, rape, etc.
I’m hardly defending a woman who leaves her kid alone with a .38, but . . . Murder???
Do they have some sort of unique definition in Louisiana that I’m not aware of?
Sam needs a time out
Justice Samuel Alito’s middle-school antics (by Dana Milbank, Washington Post)
The most remarkable thing about the Supreme Court’s opinions announced Monday was not what the justices wrote or said. It was what Samuel Alito did.
The associate justice, a George W. Bush appointee, read two opinions, both 5-4 decisions that split the court along its usual right-left divide. But Alito didn’t stop there. When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg read her dissent from the bench, Alito visibly mocked his colleague.
Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the high court, was making her argument about how the majority opinion made it easier for sexual harassment to occur in the workplace when Alito, seated immediately to Ginsburg’s left, shook his head from side to side in disagreement, rolled his eyes and looked at the ceiling.
His treatment of the 80-year-old Ginsburg, 17 years his elder and with 13 years more seniority, was a curious display of judicial temperament or, more accurately, judicial intemperance. Typically, justices state their differences in words — and Alito, as it happens, had just spoken several hundred of his own from the bench. But he frequently supplements words with middle-school gestures.
This guy needs to go to the principal’s office. Sam is a big boy now and really should know better.
Shame.
R.I.P. Bobby (Blue) Bland
Bobby (Blue) Bland, Soul and Blues Balladeer, Dies at 83 (New York Times)
Bobby (Blue) Bland, the debonair balladeer whose sophisticated, emotionally fraught performances helped modernize the blues, died on Sunday in Memphis. He was 83….
Exhibiting a delicacy of phrasing and command of dynamics akin to those of the most urbane pop and jazz crooners, his intimate pleading left its mark on everyone from the soul singers Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett to rock groups like the Allman Brothers and the Band. The rapper Jay-Z sampled Mr. Bland’s 1974 single “Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City” on his 2001 album, “The Blueprint.”
Heaven done called another blues singer back home.
The old bluesmen were such a treasure, and one by one they are vanishing.
The New York Times posted this photo of Bobby Blue with B.B. King, taken in 1992.
B.B. is 87 now, and we can only hope he lasts forever.
R.I.P., Bobby Blue.
And why are we here, exactly?
In the Bible Belt, Offering Atheists a Spiritual Home (New York Times)
BATON ROUGE, La. — It would have been easy to mistake what was happening in a hotel ballroom here for a religious service. All the things that might be associated with one were present Sunday: 80 people drawn by a common conviction. Exhortations to service. Singing and light swaying. An impassioned sermon.
There was just no mention of God.
Billed as Louisiana’s first atheist service and titled “Joie de Vivre: To Delight in Being Alive,” it was presided over by Jerry DeWitt, a small, charismatic man dressed all in black with slick, shiny hair.
I’m always happy to see people who are happy, but this just seems ridiculous to me.
“Atheist church” is an oxymoron. And congregating with other like-minded people to sing songs and celebrate your communal disbelief in an imaginary man in the sky is just . . .
Well . . . silly.
I’d much rather go to the ballpark.
Woke up this morning ... 