The Truffle

Via Ang we find the global-warming answer to OTB. Question: if we all drown under waves of melted icecaps, who's going to collect the winnings? Mahablog weighs in on the Duke case, the Kathy Sierra case, and the Don Imus case in one fell swoop, and does so eloquently. Let me go off on a tangent here: I believe that in rape and sexual abuse cases, the names of the accused and the accuser should be withheld from the public. It's not just the Duke case, which was clearly full of holes from the start. I'm reminded of the Tawana Brawley fiasco, since I grew up just 30 miles north of Brawley's hometown. I remember when Al Sharpton and his cohorts, C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox, libeled a state prosecutor, accusing him of raping the girl. Of course, as a grand jury found, the rape never happened. The prosecutor sued Sharpton et al. for libel and won (he is now an assistant state attorney general). This man spent years trying to live down being called a rapist. ...

...And I'm probably one of three people who doesn't care about Michael Richards. I'd already heard rumors that the guy was an asshat, so I wasn't too surprised by this meltdown. Maybe he and Mel Gibson could collaborate on a comedy about two politically incorrect grumps. Sounds like box office gold, doesn't it? Remember Richard Adelman? The loyal Bush foot soldier who kept his mouth shut for so long out of, erm, "loyalty" (read: the desire not to look stupid)? USA Today quotes Mr. Adelman in a piece on embarassed neocons trying to distance themselves from the Iraq debacle. Okay, so the good guys don't always win. Jean Schmidt still has a job to go back to. You have to wonder what color the sky is in Ohio's district 2... The Happy Feminist weighs in on the best analysis of Girls Gone Wild and similar raunch culture I've read in a long time. No, disliking Girls Gone Wild does not make you a prude. No, feminists do not have a probl...