We got Ralph Steadman (longtime collaborator of Hunter S. Thompson) to give us his take on Ford. This week’s cover: pic.twitter.com/nu8tyV0eT2
— NOW Magazine (@nowtoronto) December 24, 2013
A car bomb has killed at least 14 people north of Cairo. The military backed government has blamed the attack on the Muslim Brotherhood and branded the group a “terrorist organization.”
TPM Reader XX (initials withheld because would be too easily identifiable) gives us some background on two men currently in the news …
I thought it might be worth pointing out that two folks in the political news over the past couple of weeks were in fact law school classmates in the University of Virginia School of Law Class of 1998: Bill Baroni (who resigned over the GWB traffic controversy) and Robert Shelby (the U.S. District Judge in Utah who struck down Utah’s gay marriage ban this week). I was also classmates with Bill and Bob in the class of 1998, and they could not have been more different.
Alan Turing helped break the Nazis’ ‘Enigma’ code during World War II and laid the foundations for modern computing and artificial intelligence. But he was later driven to suicide by his criminal conviction and enforced ‘treatment’ for homosexuality.
Today he received a posthumous pardon from Queen Elizabeth II.
