With 489 fatalities, the state’s scenic yet congested corridors, especially around cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, have proven perilous for truck drivers and commuters alike.3. [read post]

” I have no particular brief for high Federalists from New England, but I do wonder what we might think had Garrison actually been influential and several New England states accepted his view and tried to secede, say, after the Supreme Court’s decision in Prigg v. [read post]

  And Thomas Jefferson, in particular, becomes far less notable as an admirer of the capacities of ordinary people to engage in self-government than as a thoroughly confused and hypocritical slave-owner (and devotee of a “natural aristocracy”) who especially was mistrustful of those Americans who were choosing to live in bustling cities rather than in the farms where, apparently, civic virtue was implanted into the soil. [read post]

. * 162 BC: Eleazar Maccabeus was crushed to death at the Battle of Beth-zechariah by a War elephant that he believed to be carrying Seleucid King Antiochus V; charging in to battle, Eleazar rushed underneath the elephant and thrust a spear into its belly, whereupon it fell dead on top of him * 4 BC: Herod the Great suffered from fever, intense rashes, colon pains, foot drop, inflammation of the abdomen, a putrefaction of his genitals that produced worms, convulsions, and difficulty… [read post]

This reflects the reality that gays and lesbians live throughout Queensland, and that same sex domestic violence can occur anywhere.Ms Sharon Stapel, the Executive Director of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, has summarised issues concerning same sex domestic violence:“Domestic violence in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities is an often ignored, sometimes confused, and rarely discussed problem. [read post]