the other night: Who does the Constitution think it is telling the government what to do?

Today, Easter Sunday morning

Today, Easter Sunday morning

Today, Easter Sunday morning

I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching, but it came as the New. It hobbled upon new crutches which no one had ever seen before and stank of new smells of decay which no one had ever smelt before. The stone that rolled past was the newest invention and the screams of the gorillas drumming on their chests set up to be the newest musical composition. Everywhere you could see open graves standing empty as the New advanced on the capital. Round about stood such as inspired terror, shouting: Here comes the New, it's all new, salute the New, be new like us! And those who heard, heard nothing but their shouts, but those who saw, saw such as were not shouting. So the Old strode in disguised as the New, but it brought the New with it in its triumphal procession and presented it as the Old. The New went fettered and in rags; they revealed its splendid limbs. And the procession moved through the night, but what they thought was the light of dawn was the light of fires in the sky. And the cry: Here comes the New, it's all new, salute the New, be new like us! would have been easier to hear if all had not been drowned in a thunder of guns. Bertolt Brecht

Today a friend and I were at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC walking through the gallery filled with Rodins when my friend stopped, turned around and said, "That's Alberto Gonzales." I turned and saw a small man in a yellow shirt with his head riding low on his shoulders walking down the hall with the mrs. surrounded by the great Rodin presences enjoying a lovely Sunday at the Met unmolested, unindicted. Thank you, Glenn, and all your wonderful commenters!

Guantanamo.

and has recurrent, malignant melanoma. I'm not sure which is the worse nightmare - a McCain presidency or a Palin presidency.

I seem to remember back in 1970 when the American Indian Movement and their supporters occupied Wounded Knee, a mere 80 years after the horrendous massacre of 1890, Nixon sent in all branches of the military. I haven't researched this yet, but I believe there was a subsequent lawsuit based on the Posse Comitatus Act that got thrown out all the way up to the Supreme Court. Not much attention was paid to it, even in the left press. We don't hear much about what's happening with our sisters and brothers in Indian country. Just in our own self-interest it behooves us to pay attention, because they're the canaries in the mine. Indigenous peoples are much, much more than that, of course, but whatever happens to them eventually happens to the rest of us. And now things are happening faster than you can say Crazy Horse.

If you watch Lieberman while he's talking, his mouth is saying one thing and his face is saying I love me! I love me!

In the early '90s I worked in federal court in Manhattan. There was an Andrew McCarthy there who, as I remember it, was an assistant district attorney. He's the only individual prosecutor I can remember from that time. I remember wondering how he had gotten his job because he just didn't seem very bright. He really stood out in that way. Then I learned that his father had been DA. Same Andrew McCarthy?

John Leonard and Studs Terkel - Presente!

I just read yesterday's piece about Thomas Tamm. Whistle-blowers would appear to be among the loneliest of creatures. He mentions in the Newsweek article that he's setting up a defense fund to help pay for legal expenses. I'm sure his lawyer knows this (and you as well), but it bears repeating: There are large law firms with tremendous resources who do pro bono work. Why can't his defense by the Venable lawyer be aided by one of these firms? It's tragic that he has to bear the worry of legal expenses along with everything else; he's taking a hit for all of us.

My personal favorite in New York is Schulte Roth & Zabel. They were listed as No. 2 on a national list of law firms doing pro bono work a few years ago by the New York Times. (Paul Weiss was No. 1.) I believe Shearman & Sterling is representing some Guantanamo defendants. These are just examples.

Not to sound like a ditto machine, Glenn, but thank you for all that you do. (And your commenters, too.)

whom I met in the early 1980s, shortly after he fled to the U.S. from El Salvador, having been tortured in the presence of an American, presumably CIA. His face was etched with dark shadows when I first met him, which, thankfully, lessened over the years.

Right now I'm listening to the incomparable Victor Jara, murdered by Nixon, Kissinger and Pinochet.

We U.S.ers have a lot to answer for. We should start by looking right into the face of what we've done.

over and over again that invading other countries and torturing and killing their citizens endangers our soldiers and threatens our national security more than any photographs could ever do.

We kill others; we die inside.

Also, now that stem cell research is legal again, how about injecting some stem cells into Democrats' spines?

Ralph to Alice (stabbling his finger in her face): Just remember, Alice: I'm King and you're nothing!

Alice (hands on hips): So? You're King of nothing.

Both the noble and the ignoble have descendants. Considering the larger presence of the latter in our ruling class, one could say we have an ignobility.