From the Telegraph:

The nine men from Rochdale were yesterday convicted of abusing five vulnerable teenagers after plying them with alcohol, food and small sums of money in return for sex.

However, the true number of victims, who were "passed around" by the gang, is likely to be nearer to 50, police have admitted.
That sounds pretty bad. But why ( Read more... )

The New York Times editorializes in favor of a law which the government argues gives it the right to ban books:

JUSTICE ALITO: That's pretty incredible. You think that if -- if a book was published, a campaign biography that was the functional equivalent of express advocacy, that could be banned ( Read more... )

Man, oh man, aren't they congratulating themselves over keeping it a secret that an NYT reporter was kidnapped by the Taliban:

David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban, escaped Friday night and made his way to freedom after more than seven months of captivity in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan ( Read more... )

When you read a mass-media story on a subject you're familiar with, and you take note of the flat-out inaccuracies and grotesque simplifications in that story, realize that the stories on subjects you're not familiar with are just bad:

Cogens are also considered greener, because they lighten the ( Read more... )

We need to make energy more expensive so that bloggers stop competing with newspapers.

I'm not kidding. That's actually what this moistened bint is arguing in favor of.

Edit: I've been informed that the author is not, in fact, a moistened bint. I hereby change my characterization to that of "Suppurating asshole."

Check out this retrospective on Barry Bonds.

No way that guy's not juicing - look at those fucking numbers. 25.8 runs per at bat in his rookie season, and nobody picked up on it?

Not that it will come as a surprise to anyone who's been following the Muhammad al-Durah story, but it's just been determined that France TV 2 was full of shit:

In 2000 the Palestinians began what they called the second intifada against Israel, a kick in the teeth to the Israelis seeking only peace. During the early stages of this attack France 2 ( Read more... )

BBC Article:

A man in Florida surprised police by handing in a surface-to-air missile launcher during a gun amnesty in the city of Orlando ( Read more... )

Apparently, it is:

A New Bern police officer left his department-issued revolver in the bathroom of a sandwich shop Friday afternoon ( Read more... )

Sarah points me to this New Republic article (BugMeNot works) about that GAO investigation, which purports to answer the question about how much material was smugged in ( Read more... )