No Comment: CIA efforts to keep torture secrets suffer a key loss in British high court.
Amygdala: An epic tour of Afghanistan, part 1.
We Are Respectable Negroes: Crack, Limbaugh and Hitler.
Alicublog: Right-bloggers defend Rush with an NFL boycott.
The Hunting of the Snark: More Logic Fail by McArdle.
Guest post by Batocchio. BG takes over for Mike tomorrow; send tips to bluegalsblog AT gmail
Thanks for nothing, Bill Maher, for planting the image of Palin as Carrie's Mom in my head. Click here for larger. (h/t Heather and BG)
Also recommended tonight: this online episode of Murphy Brown. Fourteen years ago and it was all there: Limbaugh, Gingrich, looking stuff up on "the Internet", the "Liberal Media Elite", all afloat in a wishful fantasy that somehow both sides were equally wrong and we could all work together if only the Left bent over a little further.
Open thread below...
Police have dropped charges against a famed Harvard professor. Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested for disorderly conduct after he was seen breaking into his own house.
Gates' attorney doesn't believe that the professor was guilty of disorderly conduct. Professor Charles Ogletree told CNN's Kiran Chetry and John Roberts that the professor suspected race was an issue in his arrest.
According to Ogletree, Gates' told police, "I live here, why are you doing this to me? I told you this is my house, I gave you my I.D. and I'm the owner of the home." Gates charged that the police would not have treated a white man in the same way. "You're doing this because I'm an African-American and you're a white police officer? This makes no sense for you to question me like this in my home."
But when Gates stepped out of the house to talk to police they arrested him.
"He was very frustrated, there's no question about that, but belligerent is not the case. He never touched the officer, never pointed at the officer and in fact, he was trying to stay in his house having produced identification saying what more do I need to do," said Ogletree.
