This story is just odd: The mother of a 16-year-old prep school student who journeyed to Iraq on a journalistic whim hasn’t decided how her son will be punished. She’s just relieved he’s on his way home. Farris Hassan left Baghdad Friday to begin traveling home, drawing to a close an adventure that could have …
Archives for December 2005
Pet Blogging
Some more commenters pets, and first up is one of the Jeff’s (I forget which Jeff, as we have five) pets: Roxi (dog) and Felix have it out on the couch. I was promised no cats were hurt making that photo. Cali (tortoise colored) and Felix (black) play in the sink. Next up, from Katinula, …
Justice Is Funny
Amusing piece in the NY Times on the funniest SCOTUS justice.
The Investigation
By now you have all read this: The Justice Department said on Friday that it had opened a criminal investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a secret National Security Agency program under which President Bush authorized eavesdropping on people in the United States without court warrants. The investigation began in recent days after …
More Abramoff Fun
The WaPo reports that Tom DeLay, who recently denied Jack Abramoff three times to Sue Schmidt, basically worked as head prep cook in Abramoff’s high-volume kitchen of sleaze. Josh Marshall outlined this controversy before anybody else, combining insider sources and reporter’s intuition to define a massive clandestine network that basically operated as a money-laundering nexus …
I Have Nothing To Say
It is a slow news day, I am unmotivated, and there is football on. Consider this an open thread. My apologies for not putting anything up today, but I just don’t have it in me today.
The War on Flour
Via Talk Left, the latest in the War on Your Neighbor Drugs: When college freshman Janet Lee packed her bags for a Christmas trip home two years ago, her luggage contained three condoms filled with flour — a stress-relief contraption that she and some friends made as part of a dorm project. Philadelphia International Airport …