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# Charisse S. on Saturday — One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.It appears to me that the US "defense" spending is the largest bubble yet, and "they" are still expanding it in spite of the fact that budget deficits have gone parabolic. Astute finance observers know that a nearly vertical parabolic ascent foretells a vertical descent which is unstoppable, completely unavoidable, and totally shocking in speed -- the only question being how long people continue to drink the intoxicating, poisonous Kool-Aid ... No one in power ever admits to believing in the bubbles, instead they declare a new "paradigm", that this time it is different. when American creditors refuse to ship additional goods to the U.S. unless they are paid in some currency other than the dollar -- preferably gold, oil, drugs or real estate titles -- then the Empire will crumble like it was dipped in liquid nitrogen and tapped with a ball peen hammer... Look Out, Obama Seems to Be Planning for a Lot More War Judging by the Barack Obama administration's reports, pronouncements and actions in recent months point to even greater war-making across the planet. [...] Of the QDR's many priorities three stand out. # The first priority is to "prevail in today's wars" in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen and wherever else Washington's post-9/11 military intrusions penetrate in coming years. Introducing the report February 1, Bush-Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates issued this significant statement: "Success in wars to come will depend on success in these wars in progress." The "wars to come" were not identified. Further, the QDR states that military victory in Iraq and Afghanistan is "only the first step toward achieving our strategic objectives". # Second, while in the past the US concentrated on the ability to fight two big wars simultaneously, the QDR suggests that's not enough. Now, the Obama administration posits the "need for a robust force capable of protecting US interests against a multiplicity of threats, including two capable nation-state aggressors." Now it's two-plus wars - the plus being the obligation to "conduct large-scale counter-insurgency, stability and counter-terrorism operations in a wide range of environments", mainly in small, poor countries like Afghanistan. Other "plus" targets include "non-state actors" such as al-Qaeda, "failed states" such as Somali, and medium-size but well-defended states that do not bend the knee to Uncle Sam, such as Iran or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and some day perhaps Venezuela. # Third, it's fairly obvious from the QDR, though not acknowledged, that the Obama government believes China and Russia are the two possible "nation-state aggressors" against which Washington must prepare to "defend" itself. Neither Beijing nor Moscow has taken any action to justify the Pentagon's assumption that they will ever be suicidal enough to attack the far more powerful United States. After all, the US, with 4.54% of the world's population, invests more on war and war preparations than the rest of the world combined. Obama's 2010 Pentagon budget is US$680 billion, but the real total is double that when all Washington's national security expenditures in other departmental budgets are also included, such as the cost of nuclear weapons, the 16 intelligence agencies, Homeland Security and interest on war debts, among other programs Annual war-related expenditures are well over $1 trillion. In calling for a discretionary freeze on government programs in January's state of the union address, Obama specifically exempted Pentagon/national security expenditures from the freeze. Obama is a big war spender. His $708 billion Pentagon allotment for fiscal 2011 (not counting a pending $33 billion Congress will approve for the Afghan "surge") exceeds Bush's highest budget of $651 billion for fiscal 2009. [...] Evidently, the Pentagon is planning to engage in numerous future wars interrupted by brief periods of peace while preparing for the next war. Given that the only entity expressing an interest in attacking the United States is al-Qaeda - a non-government paramilitary organization of extreme religious fanatics with about a thousand reliable active members around the world - it is obvious that America's unprecedented military might is actually intended for another purpose. In our view that "other purpose" is geopolitical - to strengthen even further the Pentagon's military machine to assure that the United States retains its position as the dominant global hegemon at a time of acute indebtedness, the severe erosion of its manufacturing base, near gridlock in domestic politics, and the swift rise to global prominence of several other nations and blocs. [...]
The war machine is the only sliver of government where nobody in power ever seriously talks about belt-tightening and budget cuts. The President has a commission looking into cutting Social Security, I think it's called the Committee to Increase Human Consumption of Cat Food, and he's going to seriously consider whatever screwed up advice they come up with, but to talk about real cuts to the Defense budget you have to turn to Dennis Kucinich. More wars? Makes me sick but hell yeah, you know it's coming. War is the only thing America exports, wars and weapons and movies, and it's the cornerstone of American Power and Corruption. #
John H. Mallory on Saturday — #
Jim Grimes on Saturday —
The News Sentinel ^ | 25 October, 2008 | Kevin Leininger It's been nearly two years since a jury of his peers acquitted Jim Grimes of threatening other people with his Smith & Wesson 9 mm automatic pistol. So why can't he get his gun — or the license to carry it — back? To the 50-year-old former Navy engineer, the issue is black and white. He's been victimized twice: first by the habitually reckless driver who rear-ended his pickup in rural Noble County on April 27, 2006, and again by overzealous authorities who prosecuted the wrong man. But to those same county and state officials, it isn't that simple at all. Grimes may not be legally guilty of misusing a deadly weapon, they say — but that doesn't make him fit to carry one. It all started innocently enough. It was nearly 2 p.m., and Grimes was driving his 71-year-old mother, Donna, on County Road 900W from their home near Kimmel to visit his sister in Ligonier. Suddenly, his 1997 Silverado was hit from behind twice by a speeding car driven by 19-year-old Dustin Swartzlander, who lived and worked nearby. According to Grimes, Swartzlander grabbed something from his front seat — Grimes thought it looked like an explosive device — and ran. Rather than allow Swartzlander to flee the scene of an accident with a possible weapon, Grimes pulled his gun and fired a single shot into the air. Not surprisingly, Swartzlander stopped and Grimes held him at gunpoint until a passerby called 911 and Ligonier and Noble County police began arriving minutes later. But instead of arresting Swartzlander — who lacked both a driver's license and insurance as required by law — Grimes was handcuffed, put on the ground, taken to the Noble County Jail and later tried on two counts of "pointing a firearm," a Class D felony. A Noble Superior Court jury acquitted him 10 months later, after which foreman Phillip Sensibaugh wrote a 13-page letter of concern to Judge Robert Kirsch. Jurors agreed Grimes had shown poor judgment, but were not convinced he had pointed his gun at anyone. "(And we) believed that the police rushed to judgment and arrested the wrong person in their zest to go after the man with a gun who was posing no immediate threat, rather than disarming (Grimes) and finding out why the firearm was produced in the first place . . . "The accident would never have occurred if (Swartzlander) had been obeying the law and not been operating a motor vehicle illegally." According to state law, "if a (firearm) license is suspended or revoked based solely on an arrest . . . the license shall be reinstated upon the acquittal of the defendant." But neither his weapon nor license was returned after Grimes' trial and, after a hearing in Indianapolis in October 2007, a state administrative law judge rescinded Grimes' license for a completely different reason: He had been declared "not a proper person to be licensed to carry a handgun." But how could Grimes — who was licensed to carry a gun for 28 years before the accident — be punished after having been declared innocent of a crime? That's where this story becomes either more critical of state and local officials or more sympathetic, depending on your point of view. Sensibaugh and the other jurors didn't know it at the time — because Prosecutor Steven Clouse wasn't allowed to introduce it as evidence — that Grimes had been involved in a similar incident once before. According to a Noble County Sheriff's report, Grimes was driving on County Road 400S on Jan. 17, 2004 when he was rear-ended by a vehicle driven by Carl Liggett. "Grimes advised that Liggett was instigating a fight," the report stated. "Grimes advised that he did have a gun in his hand which he removed from the glove box. Grimes advised that he did not point the gun at Liggett." Grimes insists he acted legally and rationally on both occasions: In 2004 he was prepared to protect himself against possible violence. Two years later, "I was jailed for trying to stop a crime." Clouse, Sheriff Gary Leatherman and Indiana State Police attorney Maj. Jerome Ezell interpret Grimes' willingness to pull a gun quite differently: as a sign of a potential threat to public safety they are sworn to prevent if possible. "I filed charges (against Grimes) because I'm opposed to vigilante justice and took an oath to uphold the law," Clouse said. Added Leatherman: "As sheriff, one of my responsibilities to the citizens of Noble County is to forward to the State Police Section any information that could bring into question a person's privilege of being issued an unlimited license. I'm all for the Second Amendment. But the burden rests on the person who carries a gun to meet all the requirements." But that's just the point, according to Grimes and Fort Wayne attorney Robert Vegeler, who represented him in the hearing before Administrative Law Judge Douglas Shelton: To Vegeler, Grimes' acquittal means he does meet all legal requirements, and should get both his gun and license back. What's more, Grimes said, he was not even charged with a crime in connection with the 2004 accident — and police wouldn't know he had pulled his gun at all if he hadn't volunteered the information. None of that matters, said Ezell, who presented the state's case before Shelton. "It's like the O.J. Simpson case," he said, alluding to a civil judgment against Simpson after his acquittal on murder charges. "The prosecutor has one burden (guilt beyond reasonable doubt), and administrative law has another — is something more likely than not?" Using that standard, Shelton ruled on Oct. 30, 2007, that Grimes is not a "reasonable person" to have a license to carry a firearm — something state law also seems to allow under certain conditions. In this case, Shelton concluded, Grimes was not justified to fire his weapon, "displayed an inappropriate suspicion of others" and had "demonstrated a propensity for violence and emotionally unstable conduct." Even in today's terror-conscious climate, you and I might have responded to either accident by drawing a weapon or suspect the presence of a bomb in rural Indiana. But the actions of officials should be subject to at least equal scrutiny. During Grimes' license hearing, Swartzlander acknowledged he couldn't really tell if Grimes was pointing a weapon in his direction. Swartzlander also admitted to having been involved in four cases of driving with a suspended license and that he was moving an estimated 65 miles per hour — "cooking" — on a two-lane country road when he collided with Grimes. He also admitted to having been charged with possession of a false license and driving uninsured, meaning he could not pay for the $7,000 in damages done to Grimes' truck or the medical bills for Grimes' mother, who suffered a neck injury and a bump to the head. And yet, as recently as this month, both Clouse and Leatherman seemed relatively uninformed and unconcerned about Swartzlander's driving record. "Did he have a suspended license? I don't remember," said Clouse. "And Grimes couldn't have known that, anyway." Maybe not, but that would have been — or should have been — one of the first things responding officers discovered. Noble County officials should be commended for trying to protect the public from improper use of handguns, so long as that is done within the law. But Grimes, whose legal bills are $20,000 and rising, makes a good point: Aren't reckless, unlicensed drivers a threat, too? Prior to this incident, my entire criminal record consisted of one count each of Minor Entering a Tavern and Minor Consuming Alcohol, both from the same incident in 1978. My driving record is clean. I haven't had a chargeable accident since 1985, and I've only had one ticket in the same time period (56 in a 50 in 1998). After I was acquitted of these charges in February, 2007, the foreman of my jury sent a fourteen-page letter of complaint to the judge, requesting an investigation. The court refused. The jury foreman stated that the entire jury believed the wrong man had been arrested, and pointed out that the police failed to investigate the accident. The cops wouldn't allow me to give a statement at the scene of the crash. When I tried to tell them what had happened, I was told, "Shut your mouth!" As the officer was cuffing me, he told me that I was NOT being arrested (the cuffs, apparently, were for my protection). The next thing I knew, I was being processed as an inmate into the Noble County jail. They wouldn't tell me what I was being charged with (I didn't learn that I had been charged with two counts of Felony Pointing a Firearm until I was arraigned), and I was denied bail. Every lawyer I've spoken with has told me, "In Indiana, the police don't have to tell a suspect he's under arrest; they're not required to inform a suspect of the charges against him, and they have no obligation to tell a suspect he's under arrest (I was expected to know that by virtue of the handcuffs I was wearing)." My truck was searched; the other driver's vehicle was not searched. I was subjected to a Breathalyzer test; the other driver, the man who rear-ended me TWICE, was not. I was handcuffed at the very moment the police arrived on the scene; the other driver was not handcuffed, despite the fact that he was currently ON PROBATION for Driving While Suspended for having caused previous accidents. The cops on the scene told him, "We're not going to violate your probation because we feel you've been through enough for one day." So they took me to jail and tried to send me to prison for six years. During my trial, the prosecutor suppressed the other driver's criminal record, introduced manufactured evidence and suborned perjury. The DOJ web site says he'll be disbarred for those offenses but, for some reason, they won't investigate this case, either. The cops who testified against me lied through their teeth on the witness stand AND in their depositions, and they're actually very proud of being able to do that. They look me right in the eye and tell me, "There's nothing you can do about it." Apparently, they're correct, because no one, including my State Representative (Matt Bell), my Congressman (Mark Souder) and my Attorney General (then Steve Carter) is willing to help me remove these vermin from public office. The NRA refused to help me until AFTER I had secured my acquittal (they turned my case down FOUR TIMES). Then, they sent me a check and posted my story on their web site, saying they were "instrumental in my defense." When the State Police called the prosecutor "to find out WHY I had been acquitted," in order to take my license and deprive me of my rights, the NRA said they couldn't help me because they "don't have any attorneys licensed to practice in Indiana!" The State Police have used falsified evidence to take my license, and they even embellished my own testimony to include statements I did NOT make (I have the transcripts). Everything I've read says they can't do this to someone, but when I called the FBI, the agent I spoke with (who refused to give me his name) laughed at me and asked, "How stupid do you have to be to believe we'd go after one of our own?" I had carried the same gun for twenty-eight years without incident before this happened. and I've attended at least fourteen different firearms safety and training courses, both as a civilian and during my years in the Navy. I have NEVER produced my weapon in anger nor threatened anyone with it. Unfortunately, my case is not unique. This prosecutor routinely suppresses evidence and suborns perjury. Noble County deputies have developed a habit of planting evidence (two deputies were recently fired for this but, naturally, faced no criminal charges) and committing perjury, and the sheriff himself keeps inmates on the books for weeks after they've been released (in order to pocket more meal money from the state). I need an attorney who's willing to file a 1983 "Color of Law" action against these corrupt bastards in federal court. I've spoken to no less than 41 lawyers in Indiana, and they always tell me the same thing: "We can't file this case, because the State House can make it very difficult for us to make a living." I have black-and-white evidence to prove EVERYTHING I've stated here. I would be grateful for any advice or suggestions. However, if you're going to advise me to let it go, save yourself some time. That's the ONE thing I'm NOT willing to do. This prosecutor is planning to run for a judge's position next year, and I can't allow that to happen. I'm committed to doing everything in my power, provided it doesn't violate the law, to keep him from becoming a judge. If he's willing to break the very laws he's charged with enforcing as a prosecutor, I can't imagine the Constitutional damage he can and WILL do as a sitting judge in this county. There MUST be SOMEONE out there who can help me ...
Reading the newspaper account, the question in my head is whether Mr Swartzlander had friends on the police force, or whether it was just dumb luck that the cops decided you were the bad guy. Either way, when cops start thinking "bad guy" it's damned unlikely that they'll ever change their minds. It's infuriating and not at all uncommon. Fairness, open-mindedness, in my experience, is not a trait that leads one to police work. But I have no advice, suggestions, or help we can offer. You've been snagged by the ever present whirling mechanisms of authority and abuse of authority, and once that contraption has you, guilt or innocence doesn't matter much and it takes a miracle to escape that damned thing. You're lucky to have gotten out of the bloody machinery with your body and life, and now you're stubborn enough to go back for your possessions and your rights? Sir, I would never poo-poo that kind of stubbornness. I'm not going to tell you to let it go. Certainly not. It's a good thing that you won't let it go. You have a right to own and carry a gun, it's in the Bill of Rights, and rights are rights. Letting rights go without a struggle is kicking freedom in the nuts, so I say thank you for not kicking freedom in the nuts. We're rooting for you, and we'll publish your note on the long chance someone reading it has some good advice or a lawyer to share. #
Parsippany28 on Friday — #
wlgriffi on Friday — #
Cassandra on Friday —
I trust the American Academy of Pediatrics will receive a flood of protest, and I've already sent mine...
The only positive thing is that, having grown up in a time when males were routinely circumcised at birth (and being *very* confused when I went to a nude beach in Europe as a teenager), I wasn't really sure what the fuss was about. Sometimes things just need to be flipped to make perfect sense.
Or perfect nonsense. And hours later I still can't believe the American Academy of Pediatrics is on board with this offensive rubbish. If I had kids I'd ask our pediatrician whether he/she was a member of AAP and switch docs if the answer was yes. #
Mick Caffeine on Friday —
All of this world-wide mind-boggling graft, black ops and major theft might have been a bit more easy to grasp emotionally if we had not been raised in Catholic elementary school settings; and especially now the depth of the Papal mess. We knew about the corrupt Popes of the Middle Ages and the Inquisition, but to have it revealed that none of it was ever resolved is a bit depressing. No, it is a Lot depressing. In order to tear my attention away from the Gulf Gusher, I have to find a really compelling novel to dive into... if I have one. #
Boots Akimbo on Thursday — #
Siskiyousis on Thursday —
Presumably, BP is busy wishing they had made emergency plans. They didn't, so the world gets to cross its fingers. And I do mean, the world. BP assured regulators (who can't seriously be called that) that this kind of gusher is impossible. Then when it happened for several days BP told regulators (eyeroll) that the amount of oil pouring into the Gulf was relatively insignificant and under control. Five days into the disaster we learned (not from BP, but from government officials) that the gusher is much much larger than we'd been told, and that there's no way to shut it off. I haven't yet heard a "worst case scenario" that truly presents the worst case, probably because the true worst case scenario is almost inconceivably awful, but let's try: If it takes months to cap the gusher — and it certainly could, as the depth and scope of this crisis is unprecedented and BP had no emergency plans — this "spill" has the potential to make the Gulf of Mexico a dead zone. What's more, it could spread stink, slime, and death up and down the Atlantic coast. But wait, there's more — ocean currents could conceivably but realistically carry the oil to the farthest reaches of the seven seas, leaving the stink of BP's oil catastrophe to literally cover the globe. In which case, we'd be talking about a lot more than dead fish and a few American states with withered economies. #
wlgriffi on Thursday —
Couldn't agree more enthusiastically, and I've already written something to that effect for next week (though I can't find it at the moment). #
Jim B. on Thursday — #
Angry Annie on Thursday — #
Bernie C. on Wednesday —
What can I say but yup? They're having rowdy protests but they ought to be rioting in the streets. #
Emma Ibbers on Wednesday —
I hate that asswipe Baucus (allegedly a Democrat) more than I hate most of 'em, and I hate most of 'em a lot. Insert generic but enthusiastic insults here. # wlgriffi on Monday — "Another tax factoid: the death tax is still zero but do we see billionaires jumping out of windows? No, because they're greedy bastards :-)" Comment : At least until they find a way to take it with them when they jump. #
Beverly on Wednesday —
I haven't watched the video, but from the photo and coverage it looks like the cop's other choices would've been (a) tackling the guy, or (b) just letting him run on the field all day until he got tired. The former runs a risk of injury for both cop and perp, and the latter seems rather rude to the players and audience, and would tend to encourage more of the same. So no, I see nothing wrong in the cop's action. That's the proper use of a Taser.
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It would have worked just as well to have a few cops go out there and use a portable megaphone to tell the evil perp child to get the fuck off the field ASSHOLE.
I hate corrupt and/or brutal cops and I hate the people who make excuses for them, but that said, this incident seems like at least a gray area. You're assuming that the guy running on the field is just a harmless dolt who wants a few moments of attention, and that's usually been the case, historically. But his intent might just as easily be to attack the second baseman or center fielder, and there's no knowing until he's stopped. I'm seeing this incident as a judgment call, something not so black-and-white as the beatings and bribes and sexual assaults by cops that we list at length on the bad cops page. I could be wrong of course and often am, but my gut says: Rush the stage at a concert or the podium at a speech or run onto the field at a ball game and you take your chances. I want the cops to protect performers from nutballs. # Siskiyousis on Thursday — That's what they used to do, isn't it? Ignoring would work much more quickly... like with the Famous Flasher way back when. All they want is attention. Don't give them any more than they can provide by themselves. Yeah, some folks actually woke up when the unexpected happened. #
Justin W. on Wednesday —
From a quick read of the article it's as if Visa just found out about this last week. Which is bull, of course. They've known and participated and made millions on the fees for as long as this scam has been going on, and they get no credit from me for acting all indignant and stopping it only now, after a Senator goes on teevee and says it's deceptive. I mean, of course it's deceptive and of course Visa knew. That's the point and, as we always say but it never happens, somebody ought to be sent to prison. Lots of somebodies. #
LarryE at Lotus on Tuesday —
Yeah, circle the wagons. Makes sense and I can understand it, and we are certainly presented with an endless series of things to circle the wagons over but that much circling just makes me dizzy. Chavez was hated in American media even before Sulphur Day, but yeah, the hatred went exponential after that. My reaction was the opposite, and Chavez went way up in my personal polling. But my reaction to the news is often the opposite of what I'm told to feel. Cripes, I remember seeing all the flags sprouting like mushrooms after 9/11, and I remember thinking no good would come of it. It's human nature, I suppose, to circle the wagons and salute the flags, and it's something the borderline humans like Cheney know how to exploit. Count on 'em to turn that circling or saluting into something sinister, something for future circling and saluting. I type this in Darth Vader's voice, not Cheney but the real Darth from Star Wars: Respect the awesome powah of the flag, not for patriotism but for evil. Glad the link sent a few folks your way. You do good work and definitely deserve it.
I got your email the same day a local paper had an article about a group looking for 150 volunteers to "show your patriotism" by holding up a giant US flag on Armed Forces Day. Giant flags = patriotism. Yeppers.
The last refuge of scoundrels, as they say. Scoundrels in nice suits. I'll send fifty bucks to any national-level politician who holds a press conference without first sticking an American flag or several American flags behind him, but I'll never have to pay 'cuz there's always, always a flag or a flock of flags. The business of government, I think, is about half illusion, half collusion. #
WlGriffi on Tuesday —
Workers as a class, dead or alive, rarely get any media attention unless they're on strike, but yeah, these unlucky souls seem to have been shortchanged in death perhaps more than usual. Lots more workers and souls in general are going to be hurt in the aftereffects, and they'll get plenty of media attention for their misery for a few weeks and then perhaps once yearly for a few years on the anniversary of the gusher, but eventually the gummy stinking ruined reality will just be the norm. And BP won't pay much, won't pay anything it can get out of, and won't pay anything it can delay paying. Mother of God, this is going to be wretched. #
Plum22 on Tuesday —
This book is so dark I feel like slitting my wrists. Twice. But no doubt a nice bit of lie down will make the urge pass... See www.saragran.com
I know Hell, but that's a Hell I've only seen through other people's eyes. Which is preferable. But I don't think I'm up to that Hell these days. #
Glynnis O. on Monday —
You're welcome, but no I'm not. Far from it. I'm barely hanging on to my own sanity, luv. #
WlGriffi on Sunday —
A word to the wise, as my pop used to say. #
Lon Garm on Sunday —
And just when is payday? How much does his lawyer get? Where can he live afterwards? No, NOT lucky. I see lots of appeals and lawyers getting paid. #
J.R. Mooneyham at jrmooneyham.com on Sunday —
Starts out too technical, "We've all heard how the h.264 is rolled over on patents and royalties", ah, but I've heard nothing about h.264. I can guess what it is from context, like I can guess or Google MPEG-LA (a "reseller of consolidated patent license portfolios for parts of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards"). But even though I'm not the target audience and know nothing about photography, the gist comes through pretty quick. Canon, Panasonic, Sony and other cameras, even "professional" grade cameras, are sold with a licensing agreement that seems to exclude professional photography. Smells like there might be an eentsy-weentsy potential for abuse of corporate power there. #
Montgomery Scott on Sunday — #
HalfCocked on Saturday — #
Drew Farmington on Saturday —
I suppose I should care, but I don't. I just don't think Obama is that kind of stupid and I wouldn't much care if he was. Was the Enquirer's story changing when you saw this? Looks like it's changing now...
Whether it's true or not, it is believable. Thankfully it was with a woman. Regardless, this is classic dirty tricks action. I wonder if this will make Obama rethink bending over backwards to appease Republicans. Perhaps some of those good old boys better start worrying about an angry black man who is invulnerable to everything for three years -- he can order anyone assassinated according to whatever he says the law is (Thanks, Bush!) #
AK on Friday —
I remember RFID worries several years back, and I vaguely remember the CityWatcher story when it was news, like this. Good news: it looks like that company is out of business now — there's nothing but a placeholder ad site where citywatcher.com used to be.
That is remarkably good news!! Hmmm, an evil company goes out of business? Pinch me I must be dreaming. #
Parsippany28 on Friday —
We should all be joyous. There aren't many chances for joy in the daily news, so we should all be joyous when the opportunity for joy arrives. I'd be more joyous if the criminal investigation was officially announced instead of rumored, and overjoyous when if the charges were anywhere near as huge as the crimes. By the way, Rolling Stone is going to fade behind a paywall soon, presumably taking Matt Taibbi with it. I don't care at all about the crap that masquerades as rock 'n roll these days, so I sure can't envision paying. Sigh. But I'm sure summaries will be available, and I do want Rolling Stone and Taibbi to do well.
we'll still have his blog: http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/ but in total it is a terrible loss. I've been a huge fan, ever since, "Shoveling Coal For Satan.
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