And like that - he’s gone

For those of you keeping score at home: that’s two “I will resigns” and one “I won’t resign” from Idaho’s soon-to-be-ex senator, Larry “Wide Stance” Craig. Barring yet another reversal, looks like he’s out. Guess whatever support that he thought he had turned out to be illusory.
I have to say, I’m a little disappointed. I [...]

Larry Craig just won’t go away

For many years, once-senator and erstwhile presidential hopeful Gary Hart has been - in my view, at least - the exemplar of thoroughly unsound personal judgment by a politician. Yes, Hart has a lot of notable competition for the position, but can anything really compare with a public challenge to a hostile and suspicious press [...]

You saw this episode already

I’ve had nothing to say about Larry Craig and his Minnesota restroom stall travails; it seems to me that most everything that can be said already has been. However, the transcript of Craig’s interrogation by investigator Dave Karsnial fairly demands some comment or other. This is fascinating reading, not just for its obvious prurience or [...]

Wanker of the day

R.L. White, president of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP:
White also said he didn’t understand the uproar over dogfighting, when hunting deer and other animals is perfectly acceptable.
Is this the stance of the NAACP as a whole? Hard to imagine that would be the case. Perhaps Julian Bond can clear things up for us.
Incidentally, if [...]

Pulp nonfiction

Sigh. (Link to Post-Dispatch law and order story now defunct, of course.)
Bullets riddle truck — and man — in city
A young man staggered from a bullet-ridden pickup truck and died on the streets of St. Louis early today.
It just goes on and on. And on. And, uh, on.
I actually take less pleasure from criticizing Harry [...]

Dog pound bound: Vick pleads out

Not elusive enough, apparently
The collective howl you hear is the canine population of America in full-throated triumph: Michael Vick pleads guilty to federal charges in his dogfighting case.
“After consulting with his family over the weekend, Michael Vick has asked that I announce today that he has reached an agreement with federal prosecutors regarding charges pending [...]

Area police officer killed

The news in St. Louis this morning is all about young police officer Norvelle Brown, who died last night after having been shot by a suspect he was detaining. No suspects; one weapon recovered.
Terrible news for his family and friends, for the department, for the city. Not to rank murders on a scale, but the [...]

The soothing effect of schadenfreude

Some days, thoughts of Michael Vick are all that keep me going.

Ah. Much better.
Thank you, Deadspin. Keep it coming.

“Pop-pop”

I’ve come to the conclusion that Harry Levins is consciously and deliberately writing terrible, God-awful ledes in an attempt to force the editors at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to take him off the crime blotter beat. Nothing else makes sense.
Today’s entry (link now defunct):
6 wounded overnight on city streets
Some of the pop-pop noises overnight in [...]

We’re, uh, number one

St. Louisans flush with pride over their baseball team and its world championship have a more dubious distinction to their account today, one that probably doesn’t warrant a parade down Market Street. The Gateway City tops the nation in crime, and here, as in baseball, we…uh, beat Detroit:
St. Louis named most dangerous U.S. city
A surge [...]