As October takes her first breaths, I dismiss the steady source of corporate income, the pink ribbon. In it’s place, another ribbon, this one purple, and not a ribbon that Estee Lauder would be interested obtaining legal counsel over. The purple ribbon stands for domestic violence awareness, and October is …
Does a ga zillion years make a difference? From the Independent: “But in March 1977, Polanski, then aged 44, made the fateful mistake that hangs on him to this day. He had been commissioned by Vogue Hommes to take a series of photographs of adolescent girls: he wanted to show …
I was at Panera’s waiting for a colleague, taking advantage of the black bean soup and free wireless, when I came upon this story about a Blogger jailed in Anna Nicole Smith defamation suit. I’m not going to discuss this case, I don’t care about it except as an example …
While we’re on justice let’s look at the case of Troy Davis, digressing slightly for a moment. Nisha recently wrote about Iran’s execution of Delara Darabi, wondering why there wasn’t more coverage of the case by mainstream media. Darabi, a juvenile when the crime was perpetrated, having originally confessed to …
A disturbing precedent concerning murder of the foreign born — there was no indication that those who beat Luis Ramirez to death knew he was an undocumented immigrant — has been set in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Teenagers Not Guilty in Fatal Beating A Mexican man named Luis Ramirez was beaten …
