Wow. Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is already one of our most notorious domestic terrorists. Wouldn't it be something if he were also the one behind another famous scare?
The FBI said Kaczynski was among "numerous individuals" from whom the Bureau tried to obtain voluntary DNA samples as part of a reexamination of the 1982 killings in which seven Chicago residents ingested Tylenol capsules laced with deadly cyanide.
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We're almost in the era of "culture on demand" -- everything available all the time. Bill Wyman at Slate:
The mother of all conspiracy theories:
An uncovered letter written by John F Kennedy to the head of the CIA shows that the president demanded to be shown highly confidential documents about UFOs 10 days before his assassination.
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Thank goodness this is the minority view on the court:
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer argued Tuesday that judges need to apply the Constitution's values with an eye toward the changing times as he talked about the past successes and missteps of the nation's highest court.
“With vinyl, one is forced to slow down and take in an album as a whole piece of work as the artist intended,” he said.
That's from a 22-year-old member of the digital generation on the joys of LPs and 45s, which are enjoying a resurgence. He likes new music on vinyl like White Stripes and Radiohead but the "old" stuff, too, like George Clinton and the Beatles. Makes me feel a little decrepit.
Ah, the legend lives on. Mishawaka has become the first Indiana city to designate a "welcome home" day for Vietnam veterans, which is a nice gesture. But do we have to keep dragging out the whole hippies-harassing-vets myth?
Down on Parry Street in South Bend, Vietnam veterans gathered at the Marine Corps League over ice cream, cake and their favorite beverages to say it's about time.
The Associated Press fact checks President Obama's speech on Libya and is surprisingly skeptical. This is especially interesting because it gets to the heart of the difference between Obama the candidate and Obama the chief executive:
New York Times legal commentator Linda Greenhouse analyzes Antonin Scalia's blistering dissents and wonders what "this smart, rhetorically gifted man thinks his bullying accomplishes?" She ventures the opinion that he cannot contain himself because he has become so furious and resentful at not getting all that much accomplished.
But Scalia had a better explanation in 2008 when The Wall Street Journal asked him if he viewed judicial dissent as a form of advocacy.
Illinois has banned the death penalty, and it wasn't about morality:
Inmates like the serial killer John Wayne Gacy, whose guilt was never in question, were put to death and caused little controversy. But when a miscarriage of justice was discovered and a death row inmate was set free, the police and prosecutors contended that it was an isolated incident, an anomaly. They got little argument.
If these two institutions can co-exist, maybe there's hope for the rest of us:
Harvard University announced Thursday that it will bring the military's Reserve Officers Training Corps program back to campus after more than 40 years.
