From Reason’s Jacob Sullum: According to FBI figures released today, a record number of people were arrested for marijuana offenses in the U.S. last year: 771,605, compared to the previous record of 755,186, set in 2003 (which surpassed the earlier peak of 735,500, reached in 2000). Marijuana accounted for more than two-fifths of the 1.7 million drug arrests. As usual, the vast majority of marijuana cases (89 percent) involved possession,

From Reuters: Suspected Muslim militants killed a Buddhist monk and two teenage boys and set fire to a temple in Thailand’s restive south, police said on Sunday, in separatist violence that has claimed more than 900 lives. The militants who attacked the Buddhist temple in the southern Pattani province late on Saturday had slit the 76-year-old monk’s throat, said a police report obtained by Reuters. The charred bodies of the

Smith:  “I’ll tell you this much, Skins.¹ If that waitress isn’t here in 30 seconds with my fucking Pellegrino, I swear to Christ I’ll have her job…”* **** ¹Jane Skinner

From the Honolulu Advertiser: A lawsuit filed by five Hawaiians claims that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is illegally spending dollars reserved for the benefit of those with 50 percent Hawaiian blood or more. All nine OHA trustees as well as two former trustees are named in the suit, which states that they “expended trust funds without regard to the blood quantum contained in the definition of native Hawaiians” as

Reacting to this Richard Bennett post, which argues that the Miers nomination is less about overturning Roe (which dubious decision the Right relies upon to maintain the indignation that fires up the base) than it is about appointing to the court a judicial activist whose opinions on certain key issues will steer the court to the right (he suggests the Schiavo case is the social right’s new litmus test), Cathy

To Rick, for the Amazon gift certificate, which I just used to pick up Batman Begins on DVD.  Didn’t see the flick in the theaters, so I’m really looking forward to it.

From the Telegraph UK: The Irish rock star, Bono, has been angered by Senator Hillary Clinton’s use of a U2 concert this week to raise funds for her political campaign coffers—even though he is a good friend of her husband, Bill. “U2 concerts are categorically not fund-raisers for any politician. They are rock concerts for U2 fans,” said his close associate, Jamie Drummond, who runs Data, the Third World advocacy

Oxblog’s David Adesnik expands on my post yesterday by comparing in more detail coverage on the Iraq vote by the New York Times and the Washington Post (here, here, here, and here) Quips Adesnik, “I guess the answer to my confusion is obvious: only read one newspaper, and then the world will seem like a much more orderly and rational place.”