The victim was Michael Sandy, a gay, black 28-year-old. The suspects were a group of young whites who ran out of money and drugs on a Sunday night and figured a gay man would be an easy mark for a robbery. Police said the men, using an online chat room, lured Sandy to a remote New York City beach by promising a date, then beat him and chased him into

The CIA has warned its counterparts in Europe of the possibility of terror attacks in several countries, with Paris’ sewage system among the suggested targets, a French official said Thursday.

And she meant it to sting: I no longer spend hours clicking back and forth between combatants like these guys, trying to figure out who said what to whom first in the never-ending left/right blogosphere game of one upmanship. In the past, I’d spent whole days reading everybody’s posts on the latest fray–partly because if you fall into one of these things in medias res it’s really hard to figure

PajamasXpress blogger Flemming Rose* learned yesterday that he was the target of a planned terrorist attack. The editor who published the controversial Mohammed cartoons writes that he is determined not to let the revelation change his life. Shorter Greenwald (I learned this from Belle Waring): he asked for it. ‘Course, it’s not like Olbermann receiving white powder in a letter.  That’s just out of bounds, and not a joking matter. 

My son woke up at 6:15 this morning screaming. He had a nightmare about dragons, from what I could gather — one that may have been fueled by a 104.5 degree temperature. I fed him his kiddie Motrin and dabbed his cheeks and arms with a warm compress, then rubbed his shoulders and told him stories (about Puff, a magic dragon who daddy really, really loved back in college) until

keeps on digging and digging in a piece advocating “taking Rush out”. Really, it’s a bit like Gleen pretending integrity. The funniest part is that she’s entitled the article, in which she channels Digby, “Is That A Fat Lady I Hear Singing?” I guess “singing” is a subjective evaluation. Unrelated (mostly): Iran ‘arming Taliban with roadside bombs’ Not as though they’re land mines, or anything.