Just in case you still thought we had a Constitution...

In Re: Padilla

A reminder about detention without trial, for US citizens arrested on US soil, unarmed, without resistance:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6682846

BOHICA

Golly gee whiz, got this nice thick book in the mail today. Tax forms.

Thoroughly mixed feelings

Another item in today's mail: appears that a high school English teacher in New York asked the students to write a story in some favorite author's style. I have received a copy of one result from the student, a pre-story to SUMMER COUNTRY involving Brian Albion and the Gurkhas...

No, I haven't read it yet. Not sure I dare.