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Southern Miss band members at the first round NCAA game yelled “Where’s your green card?” when Puerto Rican player Angel Rodriguez went in for a free throw. Rodriguez’s team, Kansas State, went on to win, and both the president and athletic director at Southern Miss appropriately apologized. No word on whether they’re adding a unit on [...]  Here’s the reasons for the nomination: While on probation for theft, he stole the nameplate from the judge’s door at the courthouse (it reads “Judge Michael J. Orlando”) He had his girlfriend take a picture of him, posing in a car with the nameplate. He could not look more stoned-and-out-of-it. A helpful Facebook friend [...] Recall that one of the pardons was issued for a South African who just wants to go home. The AP is reporting that, on the way out, he got picked up by the INS: Federal officials say a South African man pardoned by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour will remain in federal custody pending [...] Apparently, apologists for drone killings aren’t the first to object to the use of the word “assassination” for something they advocated. Here’s the opening lines of Charles Guiteau’s explanation of why he shot and killed President Garfield: I have not used the word “assassination” or “assassin” in this work. These words grate on the [...] Really. But I’m guessing that, if he were allowed to pick things in life to win, he might have gone with something else. This is part 3 of a three part trip through the Jefferson and Claiborne County areas of Mississippi. Here’s part 1 and part 2. From Port Gibson on Rodney Road, we traveled about ten miles to the site of Windsor Ruins. Several hundred yards before Windsor on the East side of the [...] Thomas Hines grew up in Oxford; his mother was a long-time elementary school teacher here and his father a professor on campus. Thomas Hineshas published books about modern architecture, and is a “notable professor emeritus of history and architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles.” He obviously spent decades coming back to [...] This is part 2 of a three part trip through the Jefferson and Claiborne County areas of Mississippi. Here’s part 1. About 6.6 miles north of State Highway 553 and its intersection with U.S. Highway 61 is Church Hill, the location of Christ Church, which was the first Episcopal congregation in Mississippi. [...] A court has ordered the destruction of one of them. Gannett’s papers, including the Clarion Ledger, are going behind a paywall this year. It will work like the one at the NY Times: You get a few free articles a month and then have to pay: The vogue for digital paywalls sweeping the news business has made it all the way to the top:Gannett, [...] |
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