Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, the actress who played a cold-blooded killer of the same name on the HBO series The Wire, was arrested on minor drug charges yesterday after police picked her up for refusing to cooperate as a witness in a murder trial, records show. The whole story in The Sunis here.
Month: August 2008
Good news for NYPD
Rookie Salaries Would Rise in Deal With Police Union
Makes you want to drink
Dave H. sent me the link to this cartoon by Chris Britt in the Peoria Journal Star.
Me on KPFT right now
KPFT. About drugs.
No wonder people like him
I am proudly liberal. I am not an economic libertarian or social conservative. With that, I heard Ron Paul interviewed on National Public Radio yesterday. Of course like any politician, he was playing to his audience. On NPR, he’s talking about ending the war in Iraq and not, say, overturning Roe v. Wade. But with what I heard him say,…
More bad news from the war on drugs
Thanks to the War on Drugs, submarines are slipping undetected into the U.S. The Boston Globe has the latest story.
Colleges: Drinking age ‘not working’
Top university officials in Maryland – including the chancellor of the state university system and the president of the Johns Hopkins University – say the current drinking age of 21 “is not working” and has led to dangerous binges in which students have harmed themselves and others. “Kids are going to drink whether it’s legal or illegal,” said Johns Hopkins…
Police officer indicted for Taser death
This is rare: “A grand jury in a small Louisiana town last week took the rare step of indicting a police officer for repeatedly shocking a handcuffed suspect with a Taser.” Here’s the story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Race is involved. The tased guy was black. The officer, who was fired, was white. Meanwhile, in Houston. It turns out that…