POT DEALERS SELL WEED ON CRAIGSLIST
The classified-advertising Web site craigslist has become popular in recent years with young, tech-savvy city dwellers seeking apartments, jobs and for-sale items. But it's also being used as an Information Age black market for some Seattle-area marijuana dealers.
(SEATTLE TIMES)

FAITH-BASED VOLUNTEERS INDICTED
Prosecutors have charged two volunteers who say they tried to save the lives of three sick migrants stranded in the desert. Daniel Strauss and Shanti Sellz are facing up to 15 years in federal prison and a half-million-dollar fine. The Border Patrol maintains that the work of the faith-based group No More Deaths was encouraging migrants to cross illegally into the United States. Part of the gravamen, the government maintains, is that the group's leaders were warned that volunteers could be arrested but that the warnings were dismissed by the group as absurd.
(NEWSDAY, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)

PATDOWNS ALLOWED ONLY BETWEEN CONSENTING PLAYERS
Florida's courts - and now a federal district court - have sided with Valrico civics teacher Gordon Johnston, a Tampa Bay Buccaneers season ticket holder who challenged the practice of pre-game security patdowns outside the Bucs' stadium.
(ST PETERSBURG TIMES, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)

WORLD IS GOING TO END - YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!
"Continuing the yellow journalism trend of marketing scary ideas, Paula Zahn Now featured a segment on whether the crisis in the Middle East is actually a prelude to the end of the world, marking the third time in nine days that CNN has devoted airtime to those claiming that the ongoing Mideast violence signals the coming of the Apocalypse.
(MEDIA MATTERS)

MERCHANDISING THE "NEW ARMAGEDDON"
Continuing the recent right wing media trend of packaging the problems in the middle east as some sort of "new apocalypse", Michael Savage irresponsibly predicted Israel is 'going to lose in Lebanon' unless it wins a 'devastating, catastrophic, overwhelming victory' in which 'nothing is left living in southern Lebanon, south of the Litani River.' Later in the program, Savage chastised the Israeli government for displaying a 'Holocaust mentality' by shying away from his proposed course for victory, adding that Israel cannot continue to 'live' unless it 'frees itself of the men who are acting as though they are still hiding in the sewers of Warsaw' and 'act[ing] like Holocaust Jews hiding in the sewer.'"
(MEDIA MATTERS)