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May 26, 2009: Day of Decision Protest in Hollywood. Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist . "Y esterday’s anticipation has turned into today’s jo...

A while ago Brent asked what I would think of a new and improved law to ban "crush videos." For the record, few things horrify m...

I did, anyway. More on the team's activities here .

The IMC is hard at work in Port-au-Prince. I nternational Medical Corps, one of the best emergency medical teams on the planet, is on the gr...

Rescued from a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince, two-year-old Redjeson Hausteen Claude is reunited with his mother. The firefighter/res...

T wo images by Stephen Crowley for the NY Times photo essay, Living on Food Stamps . See related article here . Quotes below are from the...

One man's ratatouille is another man's hero. [ Photo source ] T hey have little rat tails and little rat feet and little rat voices...

T elevangelist and wild-eyed homophobe Pat Robertson: The noose has tightened around the necks of Christians to keep them from speaking out...

I t's those terrible pit bulls! And those terrible pit bull mixes that are actually 100% real pit bull, whatever the hell that is! Oh, ...

Portuguese TV commercial for Amnesty International. H/T: JMuir of the most excellent Vagabundia .

K now your rights . The better we know them, the harder it is for evil despots well-meaning politicians to take them away. Amendment I Con...

F rom L.A. Times reporter Borzou Daragahi in Tehran: Neda Agha-Soltan, 26, was shot dead Saturday evening near the scene of clashes between...

F rom William Jelani Cobb's blog americanexception.com : In 1989 the Iranian regime put a contract on Salman Rushdie's head because ...

Andrew wrote yesterday: In situations like these , peer-to-peer media is essential. Send all you've got to me. We'll do our best to...

Interesting times , these. Tehran, night of June 13, 2009. Photo from mousavi1388 at Flickr. More Flickr photos of the election and its ...

Indeed. From danagraves on Flickr: click for big. R ikyrah over at Jack & Jill Politics makes a great point: the U.S. military allows ...

Marine Staff Stg. John Jones. Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, via HuffPost . T he VA estimated that in 2007 it took an average of six m...

Click for big. S eptember 27 – October 4, 2008 marks the 27th celebration of the freedom to read and the freedom to choose what we read. Ban...

H ow the unconscionable treatment of dogs described above became part of the Bush administration's blueprint for the treatment of prison...

T hey say that if you need to be rescued, don't scream, "I'm being murdered [ or robbed, or whatever ]!" If you do, no one...