Jimmy Kimmel’s latest “Mean Tweets” segments on his ABC show featured NBA players reading out loud some of the comments they receive on Twitter. Some were more observations than attacks (“Has anyone noticed that #chrispaul has #MichaelJacksons original nose?”), some were mean, some were funny and some were just weird. We thought the guys were…

So, “just stop touching any parts of women’s bodies with any parts of your body” probably isn’t a feasible long-term plan for Chad Ochocinco Johnson, but it would have certainly helped the negotiations in his domestic violence case (yeah, the old head-butting one) go a little more smoothly. At a hearing on a probation violation…

When it comes to public service announcements related to things like teen pregnancy, people love to be controversial. Love it. And we can’t blame them; if you want people riding a bus to digest your message, you’d better get their attention first. (Sometimes, of course, it works out better than others: New York City’s recent…

A New York Times editorial sheds light on the allegations behind a lawsuit that’s just the latest in a series of challenges to what plaintiffs say are horrendous conditions in Mississippi prisons. And “horrendous” is no exaggeration. The complaint, filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union, says that abuses…