The Culture of Incarceration
Ed at GinAndTacos reminds us of why we have prisons. It’s not about paying a debt to society, or about rehabilitiation:
….The Pew Center, as reported in the excellent industry sheet Correctional News, have announced the results of a study on incarceration, finding that a staggering 1.01% of the American population (1 in 99.1 adults) [...]
The R-Word
John Franklin Stephens discusses this most cowardly of slurs:
A lot of people are talking about the movie “Tropic Thunder” that opened in theaters Friday. One of the reasons that it is being talked about is that the characters use the term “retard” over and over. They use it the same way that kids do all [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Foul-spoken coward, that thund’rest with thy tongue,
And with thy weapon nothing dar’st perform!”
—Titus Andronicus, 2.1.58-59
