Poor guy.  I think we can all relate: Camacho won super lightweight, lightweight and junior welterweight world titles in the 1980s. His last title bout came against then-welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya in 1997, a loss by unanimous decision. A warrant was issued for Camacho on Dec. 22, 2004, for a November burglary of a computer store. While arresting him in January 2005, police say they found the Ecstasy.

A certain lack of self-reflection: After questioning eight witnesses, Pearson spent two hours telling his own story, but as he came to the part about when Soo Chung finally told him she had found the missing pants, the tale of the $10.50 alteration that went awry proved to be too much. “These are not my pants,” Pearson recalled telling Chung when she handed him a pair of gray pants with

Envoy’s damning verdict revealed as violence takes Gaza closer to civil war The first few paragraphs seem to bear that impression out: The highest ranking UN official in Israel has warned that American pressure has “pummelled into submission” the UN’s role as an impartial Middle East negotiator in a damning confidential report. The 53-page “End of Mission Report” by Alvaro de Soto, the UN’s Middle East envoy, obtained by the

From ABC News/AP: Gay couples have been marrying in Massachusetts for more than three years, but the battle over same-sex marriage in the only state that allows it is anything but settled. Lawmakers meet Thursday in a special joint session to decide the fate of a proposed constitutional amendment that would overturn the landmark 2003 court ruling granting gays the right to marry. They have three options: send the question

From the RMN wire: As Mike Nifong was calling the Duke lacrosse team a “bunch of hooligans” in public, he was privately acknowledging that the rape case would be hard to prove without DNA evidence and without being able to prove that a suspect was even at the party in which the stripper claimed she was raped and beaten. But the Durham County district attorney insisted on pressing ahead with

Yeah, I know that they threatened to plunge the region into war if the UN pursued an investigation into Asshat and Company, but surely they’re not blatant enough to do anything like this: BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — A member of the Lebanese parliament was killed in an explosion Wednesday outside a Beirut military sports club in what hospital sources said was an assassination. Lawmaker Walid Eido, known as a foe

Jeff’s got his hands full today, so I’ll try and contribute a bit in the moments I have. Camille Paglia pops up at Salon to beg AlGore not to run, and provides her usual blend of keen insight and unfounded goofiness, as for instance in this sentence: After two major televised debates by both parties, only a Pollyanna on helium would believe that any of the top-tier Democrats will definitely

Phillips: “…And with that I mind, I hereby declare June, ‘National Let Your Kids Dose and Maybe Get Mick Jagger Off with Their Hand’ month.”

Lost My Cookies emails: My younger brother Brendan was in a bicycle accident on Saturday and from what I’ve heard he will have both of his arms in a cast for a while.  […] he’s in London and about 5000 miles away from anyone he knows.  Anyway, my other brother said Brendan was feeling pretty down.  So I’m trying to cheer him up.  I’ve set up a gmail account for

Interesting article by PJM’s Oleg Atbashian, who locates a nexus between a strain of social conservative boilerplate and the totalitarian impulses behind anti-capitalist dogma in the course of discussing the dynamism of media depravity and capitalism. The thesis of Atbashian’s piece— “In the days when capitalism ran wild, depravity in the media stayed harnessed; today when capitalism is harnessed, depravity in the media runs wild. There’s a reason for that”—