Whoops, might have wanted to review that court submission one more time.

Fan made video set to ‘My People’ by Raheem DeVaughn.

Well, this is refreshing: Andrew Alexander, Deb Howell’s replacement at the Washington Post OmbudsDesk, reveals fundamental failure in one of the paper’s most frustrating direct interactions with readers. (No, not the paper landing in that puddle on your front stoop or the newsprint rubbing off on your fingers as you read it.)

I’ve been trying for days to find a way to mark the sixth anniversary of our invasion of Iraq. Six years – and while all reports are that conditions are impoving, life for Iraqis is remains so very harsh.

A few days ago, on March 18, fell the 46th anniversary of a momentous day in American jurisprudence, the day the decision in Gideon v. Wainright was rendered. Prior to Gideon, criminal defendants in the United States had a right to be represented by counsel, but not the right to have counsel appointed if they could not afford their own attorney. It was a watershed moment of enlightenment that is worthy of a fresh look.

Stuart Taylor invokes Randall Terry in his attack on Employee Free Choice, saying that until employees hear employer propaganda they cannot make “a fully informed choice.” Gosh, where have we heard that before?

Forty years ago sex discrimination in education and the judicial system was not just legal but respectable, or “only natural.” Sex discrimination in employment had just recently been prohibited by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and employers could still engage in it with social if not formal, legal impunity. Only the most dyspeptic feminist would deny that we have made giant strides toward equality since then, and Fred Strebeigh’s compassionate and engrossing book celebrates the women who systematically removed historic legal roadblocks from our path.

The AIG bonuses were a distraction. Even the counter-parties of AIG is a distraction, in that the real bottom line is this: all of the different programs announced so far, from the first firebreaks which were supposed to “contain” the “sub-prime crisis” – ah for the days when serious people could blame this on a few, implicitly non-white, borrowers – to the present put money in the same place.

Wingnut bloggers — still the biggest victimhood queens around.

The sun always shines for the rich. The money from financial institutions buys plenty of control over Congress. No one cares whether individual citizens live in their houses or dies on the street.