The Boston Marathon bombing suspects are/were Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who's been killed in a shootout with cops; and his brother Dzhokhar, 19, who is still at large. They were born respectively in Russia and Kyrgyzstan; they are/were ethnic Chechens from southern Russia, near Chechnya; they are/were legal, permanent U.S. residents; and they are/were ( Read more... )

D'awwwww.


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An interactive guide with names, ages, photos (where available), and hometowns of the Norway victims. There are additional details on some of the victims here.

The public radio show The World had a feature last week in which a Norwegian journalist was asked about songs that Norwegians are turning to for comfort. One of them is Bob Marley's " ( Read more... )

Even police confessed to not knowing much about the suspect, but details trickled out about him all day: He had ties to a right-leaning political party, he posted on Christian fundamentalist websites, and he rented a farm where police found 9,000-11,000 pounds (4,000-5,000 kilograms) of fertilizer.
Well, to be fair, Timothy McVeigh stated he was an ( Read more... )

A gunman opened fire on a constituent meeting at a Safeway supermarket in Tucson a few hours ago, shooting U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords [D-Az.] and 12 others.Giffords was talking to a couple when the suspect ran up and fired indiscriminately from about four feet away...The suspect ran off and was tackled by a bystander. He was taken into custody. ( Read more... )

A British LJer was going to a "World War II" party dressed as an evacuee. For my fellow Yanks, this means she was going dressed as a London child being sent off to relatives in the country for her own safety.

sf_drama, however, decided that she was making fuuunnnnn of war refugeeeeees!! And faaaaaammmbuhleeeeezz being toorrrrrnn apaaaarrrt!!! And ZOMG ( Read more... )

Beyond the wankage on atheism, which I thought deserved its own post, there's a lot going on to discuss. For the most part, I don't have original and lengthy commentary, just a bunch of links and some remarks thereon.

Aside from the black guy in the do-rag getting harassed by the teatwerps (thanks, razor_zedge), there's the drunken douchebag who wandered into a ( Read more... )

...but not the sort you're probably thinking of.The government, the police and the Catholic Church colluded to protect a priest suspected of involvement in a 1972 bombing in Northern Ireland that killed 9 people, a report said on Tuesday ( Read more... )

I got three images for it. Click to enlarge.

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