Celebrating a black president being elected in a country that was founded in slavery is not racism.

Think about it. If they would have arranged to try to contact everyone in person, the story would have gotten out prior to many of the family members being contacted. It's a top international news story. Word would have gotten out before the family members received notice. This is probably the only way they could…

It's a leading international story. If they would have sent the information through a middle man, not all families would have been notified before it was covered by the international media.

Hey Jez — speaking of "sex with inmates scandals," why haven't you blogged about the horrific sexual abuse that's been uncovered at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for women in Alabama?: https://www.google.com/search?q=Tutwi…

I know exactly what you mean. Orgasms are so 2010. Chastity's all the rage now!

"Abortion is most strongly associated with the fault-line of socio-economic class, across three key dimensions—income, education, and occupation. Abortion rates track closely with the wealth and affluence of states: the richer the location, the higher the rate of abortions (the correlations between the two range from…

I would say they have more abortions because they are typically less informed about contraception and are less likely to be buying condoms when they have their illicit unsanctioned out-of-wedlock sex. I believe Alabama has one of the highest rates of abortion in the country and it is no coincidence that Alabama is…

There are poor people that steal $100 and face decades in prison. They've essentially stolen millions and are only facing 2-4 years. I don't feel sorry for them at all.

I'm sure your disdain for the drug-addicted clients you had really assisted your work with them! You call porn stars who make money "greedy"? At least they are actually providing a service/producing something society that many people enjoy as opposed to bankers reap billions while the economy stagnates and busts.

Umm WTF? That doesn't even begin to make sense. Are you saying you can't masturbate to a sexual picture/video of your partner because you also see them as a wonderful human being?

Yeah it's just Brer Rabbit and sweet tea parties down here!

I'm not saying ban the fucking phrase. I'm saying don't force every driver in the state to endorse the Confederate States of America. You can't just say "Dixie" represents these 11 states, slashing its historicity and what the term means for descendants of slaves or anyone who values freedom.

Every fucking license plate in Alabama includes that disgusting Heart of Dixie logo, even license plates made to represent historically-black colleges and fraternities.

You act as if black people were perfectly fine and dandy after slavery was over, as if lynching, race-based terrorism, the KKK, convict leasing, race-based massacres, and Jim Crow didn't happen in almost every goddamned county in the South.

For the vast majority of black people in the South, that flag represents slavery and burning crosses, straight up. It's also disgusting the amount of revisionist history that goes on in the South, I've visited so-called historical centers chocked full of confederate memorabilia crap where the historian/tour guide…

Classic case of money not buying taste...

Perhaps one day its walls will be flattened so it can accommodate paintings?...

I guess it depends on what people you ask. Of course a lot of people are dead - anywhere between 100,000 and over 1,000,000 directly due to us bombing the shit out of their country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualtie… I'm sure those thousands of people with cancer and gross birth defects probably didn't…

So let me get this straight. You are calling the systemic rape of women in an Alabama prison, which has gone on, unchecked, for the last ten years, "being an asshole?" Fuck you.

Okay, but explain this please. Are you sure we aren't Muslim????