A group of generals and veterans are ratcheting up the pressure on Congress to close Gitmo.

There’s one more detail in that NYT article that deserves attention: Christie was apparently charging you and I for his personal trips to Mets games.

Mark Kleiman describes in his book “When Brute Force Fails” how the exposure to lead in a society may be the single biggest factor affecting the crime rate. It is an important discussion point.

The looming scandals that we’ve been expecting to break on the Christie front are beginning to break.

Michael Hayden is at it again. This time it is CNN that has donated the bandwidth to his continued petty whining about the release of the OLC Torture Memos. After acknowledging that the matter is over and now simply a matter of history, Hayden, in a “Special to CNN Comment” bearing today’s date, says: I [...]

The WaPo continues its institutional whitewash of its Pay2Play scandal.

You may have seen the story of the deaths at an Arizona retreat sweat lodge in the news over the last week. It is not necessarily our normal fare, but I am oddly captivated by it on several levels. A self help, wealth and awareness “guru” by the name of James Arthur Ray, who runs [...]

Do you think the leak of Marcus Brauchli’s letter to Charles Pelton’s lawyer has anything to do with the fact that Brauchli was in charge of the “investigation”?

Marcy has been moving, and moving sucks. I hate moving. Only positive thing about it is that it makes you sort through your stuff and get rid of crap that you should have thrown out a decade or two ago. Other than that, bleech. Kobe is movin on too, and that sucks in a profound [...]

In case you haven’t figured out, I’ve been swamped this week (I drove to CO to help my mom pack up her house so I’ve been packing boxes for the last several days). Thanks to bmaz for minding the liquor cabinet (and more importantly, for keeping on top of the news). In the meantime, there [...]