I don't know...there was no certainly no mention of it in the Dirt Bags themselves. And the comments were overwhelmingly of the "Oooh, I want to have sexytimes with him because that is just the sweetest thing" variety. It's just really pushed my buttons.

Wow...second day in a row that Prince Harry gets love from Jezebel. I know you're being snarky and all, but look, he's not "respectable." This is the guy who dressed up as a Nazi for a party and referred to people using the slurs "Paki" and "raghead." Gushing about how great this spoiled racist is for giving a couple…

I guess I'd say that it's 1) the entitlement that comes with thinking your wealth and power is a god-given birthright and 2) the fact that the chief source of the British royal family's wealth and power over the last two centuries was a brutal colonialism built on the bodies primarily of South Asian and African…

It's a pretty well-known slur in the UK, although I wouldn't expect Americans to necessarily know it. The BNP and National Front types use it frequently in racist attacks against the Pakistani and South Asian community in the UK (sometimes they refer to such attacks as "Paki-bashing.")

I understand what you're saying but I disagree. I've lived in England as well. "Paki" and "raghead" were both well-known racist terms when I was there in the 90s, and I seriously doubt that's changed one bit (hence, the fact that it made big headlines when the video surfaced of him using the terms while he was at…

Prince Harry can give out all the toys he wants...dude still thought it was fun to dress up in a Nazi uniform and refer to his friends as "Paki" and "raghead" as a "joke."

But there are a lot of things that the state doesn't cover for all citizens...surgeries, basic care, prescription drugs, x-rays, etc. Applying the same logic would mean denying all health care for prisoners until there's some sort of national health care for all.

But that's what I'm asking...okay, so they don't cover Pike, who's a child rapist. What about a murderer? What about a robber? Which prisoners should get coverage and which shouldn't?

I don't understand your argument. "The solution which we're currently dealing with" is either: 1) he gets the transplant or 2) he doesn't. It's not as though needy people who lack health care coverage will suddenly be granted the money that would have been spent on Pike.

But my point is that if this guy is denied a transplant the state doesn't suddenly pay for your neighbor's transplant. It doesn't work that way—they don't suddenly give that money that was earmarked for prisoner care to other random people who lack health care.

This discussion is being posed as if it's an A or B choice—that prisoners get medical care BECAUSE working class and poor people don't, and that if prisoners didn't get health care, other people would. That's just not true. (Although it is true that someone may fall below a prisoner on a transplant list.)

No bot fly on the list? A bug that bursts out of your flesh? And you can feel it moving around in there as it matures?

Seems like he never made it out of the Old Testament.

A couple of things: the part of the story that you're not reporting on is that this school is almost entirely Latino—and there's a real feeling that this kind of policy would not fly at a school attended by richer, whiter students. Many of the families feel that this policy is incredibly paternalistic and racist. (I'd…

I did watch the video...and I found it very unconvincing. I think the idea itself is as faulty as similar biologically determinist ideas that try to link racism, sexism, homophobia, criminal behavior or even religious beliefs to biology/genetics.

The red menace strikes again!

Speaking as a socialist, that's a pretty insulting view. Considering that China Miéville is an incredibly intelligent guy (listen to him speak, read his book on international human rights law—or read any of his books or essays), it's pretty condescending to suggest that he hasn't spent a great deal of time thinking…

The 10,000 union members who protested in Chicago today would disagree with you. As would the 200,000 who protested in Madison a few weeks ago against the stripping away of collective bargaining rights. As would French and Greek workers who have staged general strikes against austerity in the past several months. As…

Sorry, but to all those moaning about how supposedly one-dimensional this is, this is not the actual story. It's a pitch—a treatment. Meant to give you an overall sense of what something like this might entail. So why attack it on that score?

Mieville is a member of the British Socialist Workers Party—which is a Trotskyist group that looks to theoreticians like Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg and Tony Cliff. They are anti-Stalinist, and don't consider Cuba, China, North Korea, etc. to be socialist. I'm a member of the same general tendency…