- Please Don’t Call It Justice | Firedoglake • by Peterr
- Justice is not simply someone getting what they deserve. … “He did it, and deserved his punishment” may be a verdict and a sentence, but these two things alone are hardly justice…
Justice is about what society does, not what an alleged criminal has done. …Justice is how society says to those who violate the community’s rules, “You may act this way, but we do not.”
- ‘The Ability To Kill Does Not Make America Great’ | The Atlantic • by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- I've been talking with some friends about this, trying to get to the heart of their discomfort, not simply with the celebrations last night, but with the singular focus on Bin Laden. The tragedy that remains in all of this, and will remain after today, and is setting in on me now even as I write this, is that we still don't really understand our place in all of this.
- The Myth of Black Confederates Persists | The Root
- Top-ranking scholars have repeatedly torpedoed the myth, including Bruce Levine, the renowned professor of African-American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Mitt Romney: We’re Going to Hang Obama — Metaphorically | The Root
- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is doing some damage control for the controversial comments he made against the president on Friday. …
Romney's spokeswoman Andrea Saul addressed the matter with ABC News, saying, "It is not what the governor meant, and that was very clear in what he actually said."
We're no fan of Romney and his useless rants, but we're going to have to agree with his spokeswoman on this one.
[It's still tacky. -L]
- U.S. Authorities Homed In On Osama For Last Nine Months | TPMDC
- [I hope this will lead to serious de-escalation of our armed presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. -L]
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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