Gangsters in Blue

• Another isolated incident.
• Woman investigated for civil rights violations after posting ad for Christian roommate on church bulletin board.
• Photos of Muslims wearing things.
• Primer on early coverage of the latest Wikileaks dump. Abbreviated version: Your government lied to you.
• Here’s a commercial featuring a catapult that launches tiny pies at bugs.
• I’m tired of these motherfucking crocodiles on this motherfucking plane.
• This Randy Quaid stuff is really, really strange.
• Fallout from the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.
• David Brooks longs for the days when all sitcoms were about families. He’s right. It was a simpler, more wholesome era of  television. It was also an era that only existed in David Brooks’ mind. I’m sure he’ll find a way to blame libertarians for this.
• Vintage photos of the New York City Subway.

• Headline: SWAT team requested for violent midgets.
• Lawyer for officer in Bear-Bear shooting says he acted “in self-defense.”
• ….and most historians agree that was the day America ended.
• Puppycide in Clayton County, Georgia.
• Interpretive Captcha art.
• From the comments, an interview with Josh Ritter.
• Facts about South Park.
• Beautiful collection of color photos from the 1930s and 1940s.

• Woman claims massive police raid on her home caused her miscarriage. She was accused of violating city animal control ordinances. Her attorney says she was later cleared. In addition to the usual overkill, there’s also a certain irony in bringing a SWAT team to confront someone charged with neglecting dogs.
• Close-up photos of dew-covered insects.
• Great post by Will Wilkinson on “Earth Hour.” I thought the counter-protests in which people burned as much energy as possible were silly and not particularly helpful to the discussion. But Will makes a very good point about energy consumption and poverty.
• Old pictures of drunk Brits.
• “Area police officers were involved in hundreds of vehicular collisions last year that could have been avoided had the drivers adhered to traffic laws and basic roadway etiquette, according to official reports.”
• Woman paints people to look like paintings, then photographs them. Result: Rather nifty.

Award-winning photojournalist gets arrested in West Virginia for photographing a mall Santa, then attempting to photograph a police officer who harassed him about it. An overly protective parent complained that his kid was included in one of the photos. Given that all of this transpired in a public space, photographing the Santa, the kids, and the cop are all perfectly legal, by the way.

Which is probably why the photographer was charged with battering the arresting officer and resisting arrest, not for taking the photos that caused the confrontation in the first place.

(Hat tip to the Injustice Everywhere Twitter feed.)