- Oklahoma authorities have arrested a man plotting to bomb 48 churches. This happened last week - the man was charged on Friday, 5 October - but just got to CNN on Monday. As The Detective says, "Why am I just now hearing about this? Oh yeah: saw home boy's picture. Never mind."
- Haiti gets $53M from the Inter-American Development Bank to... repair a highway. It's an important highway, to be sure. But people displaced by the earthquake are still living in tents.
- In related news, my Haiti news feed is clogged with stories - from Voice of America and USA Today, mainly - about the rise of Islam in Haiti. Am I paranoid, or is someone somewhere planting these stories to establish a narrative that might, down the road, justify military intervention? No, that couldn't happen.
- Eric Holder is negotiating with BP to settle the federal claims arising from the gulf coast oil spill. If this is anything like the mortgage settlement that the feds got the state attorneys general to sign off on, then, as Naked Capitalism's Yves Smith says, and forgive the vulgarity, they're just negotiating over who gets to sleep in the wet spot.
- I don't care about tonight's veep debate any more than I did the varsity edition last week. Other things are more interesting, like this non-idiotic call for white history month. We may in fact need a new jambangle feature, at least until the election is over: "What's more interesting than tonight's [whatever is happening in the presidential race]." For last week's debate between Middle Man and The Plutocrat, my choice would have been this:
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| not sure if this was on purpose or by accident, but it's funny either way |
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