Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren dies at 64 [BBC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NTRvlrP2NU

“Did you learn anything?” asks Tiger’s dad. Who died, oh, four years ago.

Well, Pop, I may have learned not to bareback my 22-year-old neighbor. We’ll have to wait for the next commercial to find out.

‘Creepy’ ad uses Tiger Woods’ dead dad to help rehabilitate image [Raw Story]

Tiger Woods’ latest alleged lover is young neighbor Raychel Coudriet [Daily News]

Jeezus, this is getting tiresome:

An East Texas man who federal prosecutors allege left explosive devices including pipe bombs in multiple area mail boxes, was motivated in part by anger at the government, Brit Featherston, first assistant U. S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas tells TPMmuckraker in a phone interview.

“It does appear that there were two motives: one, that he was disenchanted with the federal government, and, two, he was disenchanted with an individual who he perceived that had wronged him,” says Featherston of 52-year-old Larry North, who was arrested today.

Three dozen bombs in almost two dozen places. And why do the perps all have to look like Big Lebowski?

Prosecutor: East TX Man Distributed Pipe Bombs Because Of Anger At Government [TPM]

Suspect Linked To 36 Explosive Devices [Tyler Morning Telegraph]

The site aggregator Memeorandum is the Blogger’s Friend, doing for commentary what Google does for news. And bless their hearts, they picked up on yesterday’s naughty Chicago Republicans post. Which, mirabile dictu, is still online, complete with plenty of lively responses from the gallery: “With this one photo, the part of No just became the party of Yes, Yes, Yes!”

The Female Century vs The Hetaerae Century & The John Edwards “Affair” [Chicago Republicans, NSFW]

Way back in 2001 — let’s pause here for everyone to consider their advancing age, and why UPS hasn’t yet delivered our jetpacks — one of the debates was whether to handle 9/11 as a crime, or an act of war. We won’t rehearse those arguments here, but suffice to say that we thought then, thought in the years that followed, and continue to think now that the FBI, and not the DoD, was the agency best equipped to respond.

Jumping ahead eight years, we were pleased that both the Fort Hood shooter and the Underwear Bomber were treated as the criminals they are, and not the martyrs they aspired to be. Both were terrorists by definition — motivated by ideology — but regarding them as soldiers would be, in a phrase now thankfully retro, to let the terrorists win.

Yet in the case of a man who links these two examples, we’re doing just that:

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Here’s what you missed if you weren’t paying attention Wednesday night:

1. Breaking news that someone lit a fuse in his shoe during a United flight from D.C. to Denver.

2. Discovery that the shoe-bomber held a diplomatic passport from Qatar.

3. Fighter jets being scrambled to escort the plane, as air marshals subdued the suspect.

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At least when you stumble across the Chicago Republicans website, which asks the, um, pertinent question: “How much is enough?”

Answer after the jump. Definitely not safe for work. Or gays.

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