arrest in innocent brazilian case!

* apparently gerson helped write Blinky's nola speech. it didnt work. (link)

* "Frist now faces dual investigations by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and the Securities and Exchange Commission into his stock sales... Frist knew quite a bit about his accounts from nearly two dozen letters from the trust administrators." (link)
so sweet.

* "A 43-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the leak of documents from the investigation into the death of Jean-Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian electrician wrongly shot by police as a terrorist suspect after the London bombings in July." (link)
what a world!

* a touching post by billmon here, which needs to be read before you read this amazing post of his

* "As the protestors marched toward downtown San Francisco... The lyrics, "War, what is it good for?" blared from the speakers, and protesters joined in, shouting back: "Absolutely nothing."" (link)

* gossip: "according to sources within the Enquirer itself, the source for Bush's drinking story is -- an incredibly pissed-off, recently scapegoated head of a federal agency who thinks that BushCo. done him wrong." (link)
oooh - i hope he knows more.

* "Ed Schultz just interviewed an editor with the National Enquirer. The editor said the paper stands by its story "150%" and would go to court over it if they had to. He said that they have 2 different sources for the story, and that the sources had been informing the National Enquirer about this story for about the last month or so." (link)
hmm - there's probably $1million out there for someone who can get the KateMoss photos of Blinky with snow on his nose.

* btw, if blinky found jeebus and renounced the devil drunk on his 40th birthday, and now he has taken up the devil drink, does that mean that he has now renounced jeebus?

* bob herbert: "There is a general sense now that things are falling apart." (link)

* "what Katrina has really done is give permission to America to let its inner Bush critic out." (link)

* "Dr Matthew Hickman from Imperial College London says that almost 60 percent cocaine users were also abusing opiates , mainly heroin." (link)
heroin is bad.

* able danger: "In the initial hearing held on September 21, 2005, the Department of Defense refused to produce five key witnesses relating to the identification of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta. The Department of Defense has now changed their position and will make the witnesses available in a public hearing." (link)
this story is hurting my head

* "Protest organizers estimated that 300,000 people participated, triple their original target. D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, who walked the march route, said the protesters achieved the goal of 100,000 and probably exceeded it. Asked whether at least 150,000 showed up, the chief said, "That's as good a guess as any." (link)

* "Dr. John West of the Discovery Institute, which sponsors research on intelligent design, said the case displayed the ACLU's "Orwellian" effort to stifle scientific discourse and objected to the issue being decided in court.
"It's a disturbing prospect that the outcome of this lawsuit could be that the court will try to tell scientists what is legitimate scientific inquiry and what is not," West said. "That is a flagrant assault on free speech."" (link)
hysterical. these people make my brain hurt.