The Senator Jim Webb/Phillip Thompson gun flap
Bob Owens explains it in a nutshell:
A child’s innocence – and life – cruelly stolen
Earlier this evening, I was sitting here at my computer blogging and heard some chatter close by. I looked outside my window and saw that one of my neighbors was outside working on his car (putting on a spare tire), and his son – who is probably about five or six years old – was out there with him. I gazed out the window from time to time, as I would hear the young boy laughing and talking. One minute, he’d be riding his scooter, and another minute he’d be inquiring to his dad about what he was doing. At one point, his dad started showing the little guy how to screw in (or unscrew?) a lugnut (I think that’s what they’re called) from a wheel. The dad let his son give it a try, with a little assistance, of course. I thought it was absolutely adorable. Dad and son doing ‘manly’ stuff, with the dad showing eternal patience and the son showing an inquisitiveness that is unique and special to children.
This man needs to be found
He beat up a 101 year old woman (caught on tape) and an 85 year old woman for about $30 a piece in Queens, NY. Animal.
Libby verdict reactions: The day after
The nation’s two top newspapers weigh in today with their opinions on yesterday’s verdict in the Libby trial. The Washington Post is first up, and gets it – for the most part – right with their summation:
Double standards in Duke rape cases
Back on the 12th, I blogged about a rape that allegedly happened to a Duke student at an off campus frat party, and noted an obvious double standard the media was employing, namely that they weren’t so quick to release the race of the accused unlike they were in the Duke lacrosse rape case drama, where they mentioned the race and ‘privileged backgrounds’ of the three accused lacrosse players as often as they possibly could. In my post, I noted that the accused in the incident that allegedly happened on the 11th was described in most media reports as “wearing a black do-rag, sweatshirt, and blue jeans.”