- After Vicious Anti-Muslim Rally, a Deafening Silence
- [Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center - Leah Nelson]
The silence from those who organized and promoted a California anti-Muslim protest that devolved into a revolting display of hatred has been deafening.
A major Muslim organization released a video compilation earlier this week that depicted a Feb. 13 rally in Yorba Linda promoted by several Muslim-bashing groups, conservative organizations, local and national politicians, and some Jewish leaders. Although the rally started out as a strident but peaceful protest against a Muslim fundraiser that included two highly controversial speakers, a group of about 100 protesters broke away from the main crowd and launched into a series of vicious tirades.
- Letters of Note: The Court would like to balance the scales
- In November of 2010, realising that the forthcoming birth of his grandchild would probably occur midway through the mortgage-fraud trial on which he was working, Manhattan defence attorney Bennett Epstein wrote the following letter to the judge presiding over the case: Kimba Wood. The reason? To apply for a recess mid-trial so that, should said newborn be a boy, Epstein would be able to attend his grandson's circumcision ceremony (known as the bris.)
- Ubuntu peppered with holes – Security – News
- Almost 40 vulnerabilities, which allow remote and local exploits, have been discovered in the Linux Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel.
(Close Lynx image by Tambako the Jaguar,
CC BY-ND 2.0)The holes also apply to corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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