This helps explain why we need health care reform in this country.

From the blog, womenstake.org:

“Nope, we won’t take her.” This is what insurance companies in Florida said when asked whether they would provide insurance coverage to a hypothetical applicant who had…

Over at The Atlantic’s website, the blogger Andrew Sullivan poses an interesting, even gruesome, philosophical argument: If you buy the Bush administration’s arguments that its “enhanced interrogation” techniques don’t constitute torture, why not rape? Sullivan writes:

Raping someone need not leave any long-term…

Bill O’Reilly, I think it is safe to say, is not a sensitive man. At least his on-air persona is not sensitive. So it is curious that he has been invited to speak at a fundraiser for the It Happened…

Man seemingly has endless capacity to engage in acts of the most grotesque inhumanity, and is especially adept at physical and emotional cruelty and brutality to the weak and powerless.

Child rape — hardly a rare occurence in this nation — is…

Of course the murder of Nancy Miller, my friend and former Post-Dispatch colleague, has received more coverage than it would have if she hadn’t worked here and been known in our community. But what does that really mean?
That was the…