Miranda goes the way of the campaign promise
The daily disappointment: Our Attorney General, Eric Holder, says it may be necessary to scale back Miranda rights in combating terrorism. Says the Washington Post: "The administration is trying to thread a difficult needle: of taking a harder line on terrorism while also doing so within the confines of the criminal justice system." Translation: The White House is struggling to balance the United States Constitution and the rule of law with political expedience.Remember back in 2008 when Obama supporters made the charge that a vote for John McCain was a vote for a third term of George W. Bush?
I do.
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Root, root, root for the home team: In January, Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy likened admitted-steroid user Mark McGwire to Hitler. Today, he calls admitted-steroid user David Ortiz (of the Red Sox) "a character guy."
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Actress Khandi Alexander is one of our dear favorites since her days on "Newsradio." Here's The New Yorker on her latest on-screen effort:
In “Treme” (which has been picked up for a second season on HBO), as LaDonna Batiste-Williams, a bar owner in post-Katrina New Orleans, Alexander—the Queens native who was equally brilliant in “The Corner” (2000) and subversive as the coroner Alexx Woods on “CSI: Miami”—acts as though her life depends on it. She not only brings a linguist’s scalpel to the script—she emphasizes a word like “busted,” say, until you feel just that—she also shows us LaDonna’s need to survive in her newly changed world with a glance, or a gesture. Alexander breaks the box, otherwise known as television, wide open with her searing intelligence and blistering heart.
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