I care for kids, families, the sick and the elderly, working class, middle class, and every American. To end poverty and advance the American Dream, I am Libertarian Girl.
I have no doubt that there is racial profiling, even rampant racial profiling, taking place every day in America. At first I thought this may have happened with Henry Louis Gates’ arrest last week. But this photo tells a different story. If anyone racially profiled, it was the Harvard professor’s neighbor, who apparently called police [...]
After watching a movie, I always read a few film reviews of it to gauge others’ opinion compared to my own. After watching Harold and Maude last night, I found a review that ran in Film Quarterly in 1972 and made me think twice about the movie I just saw: “Maude philosophizes continuously about living [...]
I don’t like Sarah Palin that much (not nearly as much as some people do anyway), and I don’t like Joe Biden, D-MBNA. Having said that, I don’t see how anyone could think Biden won the debate last night. There is no doubt that Joe Biden is more articulate than Sarah Palin. However, almost nothing [...]
I recently watched the ’70s movie Serpico, which is not a Mafia movie as so many Pacino movies were then, but a true story about a New York City police officer named Frank Serpico who happened to be pretty much the only cop on the force not taking bribes from criminals– or at least the [...]
MSNBC has cancelled Tucker Carlson’s show. Reaction has ranged from “Tucker Who?” to “Hallelujah!” to a sense of sadness to see a non-typical right-winger get kicked off a channel (from a liberal) to “Now he can be McCain’s vice presidential nominee.” Many people describe Tucker Carlson as a libertarian or a conservative-libertarian, so it’s important [...]
I usually don’t get as involved in a sensational news story as I did this week following the murders of Eve Carson, the UNC-Chapel Hill student body president, and Lauren Burk, an Auburn freshman. Both girls seem to be similar to me and my friends in so many ways, Eve lived in my town, and [...]
The UNC School of Journalism reports statistics from a study that examined how the media handles stories related to prescription drugs. From 132 newscasts aired on ABC, NBC, and CBS, the Business & Media Institute found that 80% of the stories excluded the industry perspective altogether, not even asking the company for a statement on [...]
Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson gave an interview for the December issue of Texas Monthly in which she decried independent journalists and bloggers in response to the question, “What are the chances that the Republicans will keep the White House?”: “It will be a close race, and the purple states are the states that will [...]
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I haven’t yet focused much on science in this blog, but I’d like to begin discussing it more. Science is an endlessly fascinating topic for discussion. On Saturday, I attended the 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference at the Sigma Xi headquarters. I met some cool people, attended some sessions on blogging, and had a [...]