FIELD OF QUEENS
Eric Merfalen tried to combine the boy he had been with the gay man he had become. He found rugby.
(VILLAGE VOICE)

"MARK FOLEY BREAKS THE EDWIN EDWARDS CANON
It's always so juicy to see the mighty fall but when you add to that that it's the Prig Party, it - as we say in Alabama - don't get no better than that. Former Governor (and felon) Edwin Edwards once bragged that the only way he could lose an election in Louisiana was to get caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy, something GOP Rep Mark Foley should have kept in mind. The leaks, denial, and corrections in the Republican text-message sex scandal have become so convoluted in their elaborations and contradictions that Greg Sargent at TMP Cafe is maintaining a flow chart of events HERE
(TRM CAFE, unearthed by David Lowe)

"MARK FOLEY BREAKS THE EDWIN EDWARDS CANON It's always so juicy to see the mighty fall but when you add to that that it's the Prig Party, it - as we say in Alabama - don't get no better than that. Former Governor (and felon) Edwin Edwards once bragged that the only way he could lose an election in Louisiana was to get caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy, something GOP Rep Mark Foley should have kept in mind. The leaks, denial, and corrections in the Republican text-message sex scandal have become so convoluted in their elaborations and contradictions that Greg Sargent at TMP Cafe is maintaining a flow chart of events HERE
(TRM CAFE, unearthed by David Lowe)

"COMPROMISE" ON TRIBUNALS MAKES THEM EVEN MORE DRACONIAN
Three months ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court said the way we're prosecuting terrorism suspects is illegal, the Seattle lawyers who helped bring that case were jubilant. To them, the ruling meant no less than that we are still a civilized country, willing to give a fair trial to anyone — even the enemy. 'It reaffirms your faith in the system,' Joe McMillan, one of four Perkins Coie attorneys who worked on the case, said then.
(SEATTLE TIMES)