Looks like the jury didn’t buy Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team’s attempt to blame everything on brother Speed Bump. UPDATE: He was convicted on all 30 counts.
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Friday Morning Open Thread: Seasonal Wishes
(Signe Wilkinson via GoComics.com) . It’s Good Friday for (most) Christians, and the first night of Passover starts at sunset. Best wishes to those who observe those holidays. (And remember, non-observers, Easter is one of those holidays where retailers — Target, Costco, some malls — will be closed. Also, even if your favorite restaurant is …
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Just Horrific
The armed attack on the college in Kenya is apparently over, and the death toll is devastatingly high. Via the NYT: NAIROBI, Kenya — Gunmen attacked a university campus in northeastern Kenya early Thursday, clashing with guards, forcing their way into dormitories, taking hostages and singling out non-Muslims, the authorities said. Kenya’s interior minister, Joseph …
FaithMart (Open Thread)
Televangelist Robert Schuller is dead. As far as TV preachers go, he seemed a cut above the uber-fundamentalist, hellfire-and-brimstone grifters, despite the financial irregularities and bungled succession planning at his so-called Crystal Cathedral. But he was a megachurch pioneer, so he might have some explaining to do to Jesus about that. I don’t have any …
It’s Not Discrimination If You Call It Something Else
And Indiana’s GOP Gov. Mike Pence has just discovered that no media disaster recovery plan survives contact with the Tea Party. WALKERTON, Ind. –A small-town pizza shop is saying they agree with Governor Pence and the signing of the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The O’Connor family, who owns Memories Pizza, says they have a …
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Straight Talk
Gov. Dannel Malloy from Connecticut cuts to the chase: Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) on Tuesday described Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) as a “bigot” and said that politicians have a responsibility to speak out against Indiana’s divisive religious freedom law. Pence is “not a stupid man, but he’s done stupid things,” Malloy said during …
It’s Always Important To Remember Who the Real Victims Are
The sheer capacity of people to self-delude is quite astonishing, although not so much as it is amazing how bible thumpers are always turning themselves in to martyrs when they get caught doing something evil: Reaction to Indiana’s new “religious freedom” law has come fast, hard and loud. And the public firestorm has been fueled …
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