MaxSpeak, an economist worth your time and attention, has NEW DIGS, and he’s using Movable Type.
I think Marshall is one of the very best political journalists active in the US today, so I give his views a lot of weight. He’s very negative about the Saddam-was-a-prisoner theory. Well, ok, it was just a theory. But someone please explain why he was in a hole that he couldn’t get out of on his own. And where all the money went….
The Guardian has pretty good web coverage, and they carry a pointer to the web site of King Norodom Sihanouk
Each day, His Royal Highness King Norodom Sihanouk scribbles a few pages of French in his notebook, which is then scanned and posted on the internet (Norodomsihanouk.info) in what is thought to be the first sovereign’s weblog.
The royal blog has proved popular in Cambodia - as popular as any website can in a country where more than a third of the 12 million population live on less than a dollar a day. In part, this must be down to the king’s decision to handwrite - as opposed to typing - his feelings, which affords a rare opportunity to read the royal state of mind. On difficult days, the king’s memoranda are fissured with furious underlinings, scrawled with frantic disregard for page rules, along with bubbles of emphasis added in the margin. He also has a charming habit of separating his sections with three little Xs.
It looks to me as if this judge has clearly shown that he must recuse himself. That said, his commentary in open court is pretty reliable evidence that the Miami cops were — as has been suggested here before — waaaay over the line in trying to corral the FTAA protestors:
A judge presiding over the cases of free trade protesters said in court that he saw ”no less than 20 felonies committed by police officers” during the November demonstrations, adding to a chorus of complaints about police conduct.Judge Richard Margolius, 60, made the remarks in open court last week, saying he was taken aback by what he witnessed while attending the protests.
”Pretty disgraceful what I saw with my own eyes. And I have always supported the police during my entire career,” he said, according to a court transcript. “This was a real eye-opener. A disgrace for the community.”
In the transcript, he also said he may have to remove himself from any additional cases involving arrests made during the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit.
”I probably would have been arrested myself if it had not been for a police officer who recognized me,” said the judge, who wears his hair in a graying ponytail.
Note that Judge Margolius is a state court judge, not a federal judge.