Cable news speculates about two very important political races.
San Diego ‘Hooters’ restaurant says it will no longer serve Mayor Bob Filner because “women should be treated with respect.” Basically when a business based on ogling and being semi-inappropriate to women on the job bans you, you’ve really kind of hit a low.
This is only one poll. But if Bill de Blasio does win the New York City Mayor’s race I think it could be a pretty big moment for progressive politics nationwide, though that may not be clear at first.
TPM Reader RK gives us the anti-Lead maximalism argument on murder rates …
I am a sociologist who studies segregation and urban neighborhood boundaries, so I have some background with the issues of crime, murder, and American politics. Thank you for bringing it up in a very interesting and thought provoking way.
I’ve followed your pieces on the lead theory and the role of American violence with interest. I agree that the lead theory is likely a key piece of the puzzle, but one of the problems I have with that theory is that it takes from some scientific evidence and correlations the whole of a far more complicated issue.
Teenager running to be Mayor of small Utah town says he really didn’t plan on going through with that Columbine style plot to blow up his school which landed him in juvenile detention.