The Not So Wise Latina

Eric already blogged on Ricci, but Ace  brings up an amusing point.    While the decision was five to four, along coservative liberal lines, the count was actually nine to zero against the Wise Latina, Sonia Sotomayor, via Ace:

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Bernie Madoff hit the jackpot at sentencing, today… getting the maximum 150 years. The Guardian:

The disgraced financier Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to the maximum 150 years in prison for masterminding a $65bn (£38bn) fraud that wrecked the

The democratic portions of the goverment of Honduras have acted to preserve their constitution and oust a wanna be dictatator for life, Mel Zelaya.    So which side does President Barack Obama’s Secretaray of State take?   The same side as Hugo

The Washington Post website is reporting:

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as

… is here.

Gee, I can’t imagine why the EPA wouldn’t want you to know that their own internal report shows clearly that AGW is a crock of bull feces,  as was metntioned the other day can you?

Television pitchman Billy Mays — who built his fame by appearing on commercials and infomercials promoting household products and gadgets — died Sunday.

Mays, 50, was found unresponsive by his wife inside his Tampa, Fla., home at 7:45 a.m. on

We’re still working on the issue…. we appear to have something with PHP going. Unclear what.

Isn’t this FUN, kids?

Twitter links are down for the moment. I’ll be putting them back up tommrow night, I hope.

There’s a few

• RT@jaketapper internationla biz times reports mosques have been banned from memorial services for Neda http://is.gd/19eSn #
• @pinkelephantpun RT It's good. Is he seriously saying that gov't HC can run like the Mayo Clinic? me: But Mayo is soooo

• RT@jaketapper internationla biz times reports mosques have been banned from memorial services for Neda http://is.gd/19eSn #
• @pinkelephantpun RT It's good. Is he seriously saying that gov't HC can run like the Mayo Clinic? me: But Mayo is soooo

• RT@jaketapper internationla biz times reports mosques have been banned from memorial services for Neda http://is.gd/19eSn #
• @pinkelephantpun RT It's good. Is he seriously saying that gov't HC can run like the Mayo Clinic? me: But Mayo is soooo

• RT@jaketapper internationla biz times reports mosques have been banned from memorial services for Neda http://is.gd/19eSn #
• @pinkelephantpun RT It's good. Is he seriously saying that gov't HC can run like the Mayo Clinic? me: But Mayo is soooo

From The Canadian Press:

HAMILTON— A critically-ill premature-born baby from Hamilton is all alone in a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital after she was turned away for treatment at local facility and transferred across the border without her parents, who don’t have

Some of you, earlier this evening, will have noticed some strange goings on with the look and feel of the blog.

What happened was that  was tinkering, trying to set up a user-level theme switcher.  It’s not working, yet, but

Not that I ever read the  man’s column in anything like regularity, but it’s interesting to note the amount of smoke rising from the ears of his readers, and from Washington Post editors, as regards his recent decision to terminate

From the Washington Post this morning, comes word that the Obama administration is asserting it’s right to hold detainees involved in a wartime situation indefinitely.  There are several angles on this, so stay with me here.

Obama administration officials,