Duke Ellington, race and music in America, Kagan and Thurgood Marshall, bikini meter-maids in Australia, and why you can’t trust the Wall Street Journal anymore, and more.
All Else
Best of the Rest: May 12, 2010
Children on trial for rape, Crist renounces the party that raped him, Ginn suits redux, and more.
Palm Coast Resolution of Support for Amtrak/Florida East Coast Railroad Project (2010)
Text of the Palm Coast City Council resolution supporting an Amtrak train station in Bunnell or Flagler County.
Best of the Rest: May 10, 2010
PBS dumbs down, literary theory still doesn’t make sense, Florida sues BP, and more.
Gov. George W. Bush’s Jesus Day Proclamation in Texas
In 2000, while thick in his first campaign for the presidency, then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush issued a proclamation declaring June 10 “Jesus Day.” Here’s the full text and an image of the proclamation.
Best of the Rest: May 7-9, 2010
Conservatives fail to take over UK Parliament, the dome meets the oil slick, the US Senate votes for Wall Street, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 6, 2010
GOP wants its Crist money back, oil slick gambles, novel library censorship, we told you so: Progress Energy’s latest deceptions, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 5, 2010
Tea party’s racism problem, BP’s cheapness, Jacksonville’s intolerance, black holes, Iranian nukes, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 4, 2010
Crist goes on auction, Disney’s Tower of Terror wins even in death, the Gulf’s dying turtles, David Foster Wallace, and more.
Thomas Jefferson’s “Separation Between Church and State” Letter
Original text of Thomas Jefferson’s separation of church and state letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist association, 1802.