Can’t help snickering

That ridiculous marketing phrase is back – “compassionate conservative.” It’s now being attached to new Senate majority leader Frist – described as “a conservative with a  [more...]

Evidently, you can now be arrested for sitting on the sidewalk: Cindy Sheehan, the grieving California mother of a soldier slain in Iraq, was arrested today while protesting the Iraq war outside the White House  [more...]

[Via boingboing] The group Reporters Without Borders reports that six French journalists who arrived in Los Angeles to cover a video game convention were detained, searched, fingerprinted, handcuffed, and locked up for  [more...]