"I want to thank all of the children here today who brought their parents with them."

Said Laura Bush to all the kids who came to the White House Easter Party. The parents included many gay parents, who made a special point o...

"One Life, With Each Other, Sisters, Brothers."

Best line in a song, ever? It was voted so , in a VH1 survey, beating out "So You Go, And You Stand On Your Own, And You Leave On Your ...

Picture buttons at a murder trial.

Does it violate the rights of a criminal defendant if the jurors see family members in court wearing buttons with a picture of the victim? T...

"Human frailty, it makes me sick sometimes."

Said Christopher somewhere near the beginning of last night's "Sopranos." I jotted down the quote and meant to do a substantia...

Another (alleged) murderer with a blog.

I'm not linking to the blog but to an excellent discussion of it at Metafilter . I suppose we'll see this more and more: someone is...

Playboy in Indonesia.

Since you can go on line in Indonesia and get to all the pornography you want, why is there an uproar over the availability of a version of ...

"The rage was just calmed and here, with an absurd and criminal logic, they go and stir things up."

Another cartoon about Muhammad : The drawing appears in Studi Cattolici, a monthly magazine with links to the ultra-conservative Roman Catho...