Other front pagers need to step up. 2 the streets.
Yo.
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I think anyone who watches this clip would agree with me that the only way for Balloon Juice to resolve our lingering differences with Firedoglake is a group dance-off.
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His cellmate will call him ‘squeaky’
In an otherwise bad month for cops (lord do I not want to do a compilation linkfest) this story is kind of therapeutic.
A Pittsburgh man suspected of sexually assaulting women on a popular jogging lane got more than he bargained for when he tried to strip the pants off a woman who proved to be a United States Marshal on Tuesday, The Patriot-News reports.
According to court documents, Robert Flynn, 19, ran up to the U.S. Marshal, groped her buttocks and pulled down her shorts. The marshal — who is not named, as she was the victim of a sexual assault — pulled up her pants and identified herself, yelling, “Federal marshal! Stop!”
She then asked passersby to call 911 while she pursued Flynn, who was attempting to flee on foot. The marshal caught up with him in a nearby apartment complex, where she cornered him behind a staircase. Flynn “attempted to charge” the marshal, who “feared that [he] was going to assault her again,” so she kicked him in the crotch, grabbed him by the shoulder, then repeatedly punched him in the face.
Someone give her a medal.
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Seems aprop.
Friday Morning Open Thread: Predictable
(Ted Rall’s blog)
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I {heart} Tom Scocca, because he writes stuff like “Is Glenn Greenwald Still “Red-Hot”? The Politico Investigates“…
Politico Magazine is a magazine edition of The Politico—America’s worst publication—whose mission is “to pull back from the flood to understand what it’s all about.” The flood, in that metaphor, is supposed to be the tremendous churning hourly volume of vacuous meta- and meta-meta-political Narrative and Controversy that sustains The Politico and is sustained by The Politico.
So here, in a piece published online yesterday, The Politico: The Magazine is pulling back and taking a long view on the work of a blogger named Glenn Greenwald, who was famous in 2013 for something or other about codes or wiretapping (CK?). The headline announces the purpose of the piece, by national editor Michael Hirsh, which is to raise the question (i.e., answer the question) “Has Greenwald Inc. Peaked?“…
(“[H]is stock may be dropping fast,” the subhead adds.)
“Stock” is a metaphor too, for what was known in a more intellectual and serious age, before The Politico, as “buzz.” Buzz is a sort of enacted publicity. Under the rules of the buzz process, once a person or entity—Mike Huckabee, The Help, the panoptical security state—has been established as the subject of sustained public attention, the eventual next step is to inform the public that the public is no longer interested. This generates new attention. Ups and downs.
So Glenn Greenwald, having been up—on the strength of Edward Snowden’s decision to trust him with a collection of leaked classified documentation of the NSA’s immense and all but unchecked mass surveillance program—is due to be down. Because the NSA has stopped spying on everyone, hasn’t it?…
If you read Scocca’s whole post, you can avoid giving Politico the click while discovering who Mike Allen has anointed “The Most Interesting Man in Politics“. But you may want to put down your morning beverage(s), first.
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Apart from confirming all our prior biases, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up the week?
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Late Night Open Thread
By request, a pet pic to complete the day. I’ve never seen a cat sleep like this:
Steve was not harmed in these photos, despite the fact that he looks like he is dead. Apparently he is not a fan of NFC football.
Is Today One of the Greatest Days Ever?
I think at least for 2014, September 4th is in the running. A quick recap:
1.) BP found grossly negligent and fined 18 billion.
2.) Gay marriage ruled constitutional in Indiana and Wisconsin.
3.) Bob McDonnell and wife found guilty and could spend a good hunk of time in the big house.
4.) Early voting changes that restricted ballot access blocked in Ohio.
5.) DC Republicans are so freaked out about the Kansas Senate race they are taking over on the ground.
6.) Obamacare legal challenge by shitburgers overturned.
7.) St. Louis County Executive apologizes for Ferguson episode and seems genuinely sorry and intent on making change.
8.) Thousands of fast food workers take to the street to demand a fair wage.
9.) Rand Paul, Ron Paul and Mitch McConnell’s wingnut tea party clown, Jesse Benton, has been subpoenaed in the Iowa bribery case.
If that isn’t enough for you, the NFL is back with opening night tonight, and because I love you, I give you this:
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Let The Smearing Of Mike Brown Continue
And the cycle of incompetent journalism continues. Charles C. Johnson, the editor-in-chief of GotNews.com and the St. Louis Dispatch are now suing to try and get access to Brown’s juvenile records. That it has no relevance to his murder doesn’t seem to matter:
“There is interest in knowing Michael Brown’s background,” [Joe] Martineau [the attorney for the St. Louis Dispatch] said. “What we’re asking for here is just verification, one way or the other … We’re acting in a vacuum here.”
[Cynthia] Harcourt [the St. Louis County juvenile office’s attorney] said that “simple curiosity” doesn’t trump the state’s legal interest in protecting minors accused of crimes.
The fact that Brown didn’t face any juvenile charges at the time of his death will probably be lost in all this. Let the smearing of Mike Brown’s character continue.
Team Blackness also discussed free weed in Berkeley, belated justice in the Renisha McBride case, and the police arrest of a young black politician for distributing voting rights leaflets.
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Thursday Evening Open Thread
I was going to take a picture of a blue heron flying by when I was walking my dogs the other morning. But then my dogs saw a squirrel and almost snatched me off my feet while I was fiddling with the camera, so I accidentally took a blurry picture of their asses instead:
Poorly trained pets can severely hamper a career in wildlife photography. Please feel free to discuss whatever.