Rather funny all the outrage over Sterling and Eich, when Charlie Pierce happens to notice the NBA just had its 1st gay player come out 2 months ago, and still there are owners funding anti-gay issue ads. 

[note, I like his framing "anti-gay issue", since 1 issue doesn't mean you're necessarily anti-gay]

Why, the NBA should pressure the deVos couple to apologize or step down, or maybe fine them millions and force them to relinquish the club.

Not with a bang, with a whimper...

Oh, & for the only guy jailed for the 2008 meltdown and rampant corporate theft... looks like the oligarchy learned to cover its ass well, unlike previous scandals.

As usual (for me) Kareem manages to hit all the right points in just a few paragraphs, making sure everyone has a share of our cultural discomfort.

Huffpost lets the judge who released Hurricane Carter bask in his fame, but about time that people actually assessed the facts in the case.

Unfortunately Huffpost decided today (or earlier?) to only allow comments from Facebook logins, which thanks, I'll pass their money-making machine.

But I"m pretty amazed by the testimony of one woman, who even drew a sketch of the back of the car, and the other details that came out.

yeah, who cares if it's obviously against international law - if Putin can flout opinion, it just might work!

sorry for the Fox News link, but interesting all the same.

I figure much of the problem is rich Russians vacationing in the Crimea - all that oil money has to go somwehre.

okay, not really, but liked the image

A do-gooder Samaritan goes to jail for calling 911 & gets stripped and restrained in a padded isolation cell as topping. PhD grad, social volunteer, head of a startup - didn't yell, wasn't drunk, no drugs or guns... doesn't matter.

I must say all the debate about the Dunn verdict pisses me off. We have such an imperfect system, where people black and white and Hispanic are wrongfully tased even while unconscious, illegally searched, knocked around, and we're going to obsess over a single verdict that ended up 80% successful for most people?

All those creepy Muslim organization names look the same to me, and in this case, a woman's foundation probably came within 2 letters of being a terror org - which is within 1 or 2 degrees of freedom, so Ban Her! She's a Witch!

Yes, the plot looks remarkably like Terry Gilliam's Brazil, except they haven't whisked her off to Gitmo (yet) to drill her teeth in an interrogation room.

Let's just say another case of "government overreach"

Stuff you never knew about Moms...

Keeping Yemenis from knowing about drone attacks on innocent civilians is the best way of keeping them from falling into the hands of Al Qaeda who would mercilessly kill innocent civilians.

Thankfully, a phone call from the prez is enough to keep fellow-travling terrorist-supporting liberal journalists locked up for a few years more. Unfortunately not enough for a 5 year sentence. If this Al Qaeda-loving journalist had been in the US, we could have charged him with giving secret information to the enemy, which now includes Al Qaeda, the press and thus himself.

FBI decides they don't need anyone's approval for any of their drone use to date - "kidnapping, drug interdiction, fugitive, and search and rescue cases".

But if they do receive a request for something they think might be further imposition on the 4th amendment or other statute - they'll run it by FBI management. I feel reassured already.

Outlining how much is being hidden from Congress, how permissive the FISA court is, how there's nothing stopping the government from using phones as location, wiretap, secret camera, entrapment record.

And Wyden has been on this since 2000, though as he notes, left in the dark by the Bush Administration for years, only getting news via NY Times.

But shut down one unconstitutional surveillance program another pops up zombie-like.

Happy reading.

Oops, much higher than we stated, and leaked doc ends in 2009. Brennan wouldn't lie to Congress everyone, would he? I'd recommend the leakers be punished with treason, except they seem to not be Americans. Can we do it anyway?

16-year-old's throat slashed in what appears to be murder-suicide.

From Tamba Bay analysis

A Tampa Bay Times analysis of nearly 200 cases — the first to examine the role of race in "stand your ground" — found that people who killed a black person walked free 73 percent of the time, while those who killed a white person went free 59 percent of the time....

• Whites who invoked the law were charged at the same rate as blacks.

• Whites who went to trial were convicted at the same rate as blacks.

BMaz goes through the actual trial evidence, sees almost certain acquittal based on witness testimony.