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Here's a PDF file of an unusual employment discrimination case in Michigan. Quoting: One day, plaintiff [Michelle Howard, a Child Prot...

The film version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [HGTTG] opens today in the US. I like HGTTG, but I'm not a fanatic (I haven...

'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for April 25 - MSNBC Transcripts Pat Buchanan: "Look, John Paul II could not get approved for ...

Cathy Young responds to a response by Professor Stephen Bainbridge . "Take a hypothetical nominee for the federal bench who has public...

Why did US Olympic basketeball team perform so abysmally at the 2004 games? Maybe some of the best players contributed to Democrats .

Vote right or go to hell : "Is it a sin not to vote for the people who are most religious?'" [Only slightly modified.]

Seems like the Republicans can't stop changing rules that stand in the way of any impediments to raw majoritarian power. Filibusters are...

... because they don't trust each other. At Conclave, A Prediction And Promise Following centuries-old procedures revised by John Paul i...

Yahoo! News - Air Force Cadets See Religious Harassment There have been 55 complaints of religious discrimination at the academy in the past...

Congressional hearings are usually boring, but the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing today concerning the John Bolton nomination wa...

This is an odd AP Headline: Man Living in Closet Charged in Homicide . Those who mention it will probably crack wise about being closeted. ...

" 'Our group was founded with the idea of returning pharmacy to a healing-only profession. What's been going on is the use of m...

The group that's trying to make it commonplace for pharmacists to refuse service to women who want birth control (not just, say, RU-486,...

Kieran Healy's written the only thing I'm likely to remember from today's coverge of the death of Pope John Paul: When the Pope ...

Washington Post headline: DeLay Wants Panel to Review Role of Courts Alternate headline " Criminal Blasts Courts ."

Pandagon's Amanda Marcotte is justifiably exuberant about Gov. Rob Blagojevich approving a law that requires pharmacists to fill prescr...

I noticed that BBC America has just begun to air season one of the television version of Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (playe...

From the AP : "Jacobson, who has been playing religious and patriotic music outside the hospice for the past three days, said he didn’t...

A bit too much seriousness here, so I'm going to point to an MP3 file of a funny old song. I'm Taking My Oyster For Walkies (MP3...

One more post about physicians involved in the Schiavo case, since we've covered Hammesfahr pretty thouroughly. There are two more docto...