Serenity… an expedition

Chris Bodenner, filling in for Sully:
Liz Cheney ratchets up the disgusting campaign led by Senator Chuck Grassley to impugn DOJ appointees who represented Gitmo detainees. Ackerman:
You know, [the lawyers who] provided the representation that the Rehnquist and Roberts Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled those detainees are entitled? And which even the military commissions provide for? [...]

Well, maybe, I don’t know – but the study behind this London Sunday Times story wouldn’t support the conclusion.

Craig Silverman at CJR has this somewhat odd story:
Dr. Aaron Sell, a researcher at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, has been hearing from a lot of [...]

I type too slow.

But it’s not entirely my fault. It usually goes something like this:
News breaks! I am full of outrage (or the even more furious poutrage) and sit down at my computer to start to send my displeasure clattering away through the intertubes, I’m really into a groove, just getting ready [...]

This guy must have really felt like he’d fallen into a Kafka novel:
Explosives planted on man to test airport security
Irish police have released a man held over an explosives find, after Slovakian authorities admitted planting them in his luggage.
The explosive was one of eight pieces of contraband placed with unsuspecting passengers at Bratislava Airport last [...]

If she makes it to the top again, or even close, it’ll likely be on the wings of those who remember before and who love her, fans and whoever else. Because, it seemed to me, listening to her this morning on Good Morning America, that the voice… well. It’s no longer a Voice. I guess [...]

I haven’t heard the whole story but I imagine it went something like this:
Low level screw-up friend comes by and says, “Hey, I know you need some cash. I know where to get some – easy!”
“Nah, man, you know I don’t want nothing to do with any of your mess. I keep my butt out [...]

Because, after we left the house we lived in for my first 7 years, my mom went through a period of trying to move us into places I simply couldn’t go. I, being the brown one in our visually “white” little black family.
My mom would go to rent an apartment, sometimes taking my older brother [...]

This is the National Review’s (conservative magazine) Judge Sotomayor cover… and it’s says, right there on the cover!
“The Wise Latina”
Judge Sotomayor is, of course, of Puerto Rican descent.
So why, you may ask, does the National Review have her depicted as a South Asian or Asian uh.. Buddha type figure?
Who the heck knows. The completely wackity [...]

The Washington Post discovers that not all Black people think alike!
Details at 11.
(picture from here)

from the BBC
WEEK OF SHOOTINGS

Sat 4 April: Father is suspected of shooting dead his five children, then himself, near Seattle

Sat 4 April: Gunman kills three policemen in Pittsburgh before being wounded and captured

Fri 3 April: Gunman kills 13 people at an immigration centre in Binghamton, New York state, then apparently shoots himself

Sun 29 March: Gunman [...]