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Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three has a hearing. Just preliminary stuff, getting together a schedule for future hearings to cover a wide array of evidential challenges.

Juan Cole takes apart the Barak Hussein Obama nonsense.

I remember Bill was a Rocky Top Brigadier. Back when R. Neal was South Knox Bubba and the world was good. I used to think a little better of Hobbs than this… I guess being a party apparatchnik has changed him some.

A very handy guide for non-white people and a wonderful refresher for the rest of us, Stuff White People Like helps me keep track of where I stand on important issues like bottled water.
Logically, you would assume that drinking the most expensive premium bottled water (Fiji and Voss) would be enough to show the world [...]

The Congressional Oversight Committe has drafted a letter that formally asks the Justice Department to initiate a criminal investigation on whether or not Roger Clemens committed perjury during the Feb. 13th hearing.
…Are they asking that Brian McNamee be investigated also? Nope.
…Could Brian McNamee wind up being investigated anyway? Possibly.
Good article and video from ESPN.com [...]

There is a lot of backstory to this. I still recommend Devil’s Knot strongly, to anyone who will read it. With the recent spate of exonerations of wrongfully convicted prisoners, the story of these young men still stands out. The book gives insight into how easily a wrongful conviction and death sentence [...]

jadarm has introduced fully non-scientific, freepable sports-related polling to the site. Don’t forget to vote at least once. Top of the page on the right.
Poll question will change weekly, or thereabouts.
(P.S. Comment preview is now enabled)

The Mighty UT Vols Mens Basketball team went into hostile territory (while ranked 2nd in the nation for the first time in UT history) and beat the #1 ranked team in the nation…which happened to be just across the field in the same state…the home of the Memphis Tigers…which, btw, were on their way to [...]

The next cornerstone for the future of the Atlanta Braves? Quite possibly.
David O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal Constitution seems to agree with most everyone on the issue…except of course Baseball Prospectus.
The heartiest laughter in the early part of Braves camp came when some Braves players and team officials saw a website scouting report that characterized Yunel Escobar [...]

Belichick has said that he misinterpreted the league’s bylaws, telling Goodell that he thought it was permissible to use electronic equipment as long as the information was not used in the same game.
…yeah, for for the last 7 years including 3 NFL Championships.
“The rules are very, very clear. There is no need to be more [...]