Personally, I have no problem with the Ku Klux Klan adopting a highway. I mean, states came up with this gimmick for litter removal, right? Just tell me where the KKK highway is so I can dump a car’s worth of trash on the side of the road and wait for white supremacist assholes to come by and pick up my waste.

Hello Republicans, and other members of the vast right wing conspiracy. How are you feeling today? Maybe you are a little bit frustrated that no charges will be filed against Hillary Clinton over her email policy?

Here’s an exam question for you.

I consider homeschooling a form of child abuse. Whether you are beating your kid with a stick, or beating it with stories about Jesus riding a mastodon, you are messing up your kid’s brain.

In 1992, the Supreme Court upheld Roe v. Wade by the narrowest of margins. In Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, a very timid 5-4 majority upheld the “essential holding” of Roe, but said that states had a “legitimate interest” in restricting abortions after “fetal viability,” and regulating abortions to protect the health…

In America, we reward knowledge. In the U.K., ignorance is about to be punished.

The latest serious challenge to affirmative action in education has been beaten by a vote of 4-3 at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Yesterday, the Congressional Black Caucus flatly rejected two Bernie Sanders proposals for electoral reform. The CBC (which is just all of the black, Democratic Congresspeople) voted unanimously to opposes Sanders’s attempt to do away with Super Delegates, and they unanimously oppose mandatory “open” primaries where…

Justice Clarence Thomas took a shiv to the Fourth Amendment, this morning. That’s not altogether surprising: the only conservative Justice who had a robust respect for the prohibitions against illegal searches and seizures was Antonin Scalia, and he’s dead.

When somebody shoots up an entire nightclub, it’s a terrorism story. Republicans are always eager to talk about that angle: what actions are our political leaders supposed to take against entire nations or religions because of the ethnic makeup of the shooter?

I thought Apple had a really solid argument for refusing to help the government hack into one of their phones that was used by the San Bernardino shooter. The government eventually figured out how to do it without Apple’s help, but I don’t think a company should be forced to break its own system.

Losing track of your child for a few moments in a crowded zoo is unfortunate and can be tragic. Forcing your 14-year-old daughter to marry the rapist who impregnated her is pure evil that must be stopped and punished. From Jezebel:

Today, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Tucker v. Louisiana. Tucker is a death penalty case that progressives had hoped would start to unravel our system of state-sponsored killing. As lethal injection drugs become harder and harder to acquire, Justice Stephen Breyer has been openly pining for someone to…

Zoos are terrible places where animals are captured and jailed and made to sit there while we are amused. They’re also some of the only places poor and middle-class children can witness nature’s majesty. If you can afford to go to a game park in Africa, great. I hear Yellowstone is nice too. But if you are of modest…

For a lot of people, Facebook has become a minefield where friends, co-workers, and even relatives post unhinged crap in support of Donald Trump that makes you question their sanity. See enough of it, and you’ll start thinking, “Why is this person even in my life?” And then you’ll hit the “unfollow” button and hope…

A judge in Nevada handcuffed a public defender in his courtroom, after she repeatedly talked over him.

Another officer was acquitted of wrongdoing in connection with the death of Freddie Gray. Gray was a black man from Baltimore who died while in police custody. Officer Edward M. Nerowas was charged in connection with Gray’s arrest, not his death, but Judge Barry G. Williams acquitted the officer of any recklessness…

It is, more or less, legal to be racist during jury selection, you just can’t be obvious about it. That’s essentially the law that was established in Batson v. Kentucky in 1986. Generally speaking, trial attorneys can exclude jurors for any reason or no reason at all. Batson established that you couldn’t exclude a…

Back in April, the Supreme Court approved a rules change that would make it easier for law enforcement to obtain warrants for remote electronic access. “Remote electronic access” is a fancy way of saying “the government can hack into your computer.” The rules change would allow one judge to issue a warrant for the…

There’s a difference between being a loyal, passionate fan of your team, and being an obsessed fanatic who is too busy hucking chicken wings at the television to retain basic objectivity. And that line exists in politics just as much as it exists in sports. During Presidential primary season, too many supporters of…