With today’s news that the Boston Marathon bombs were packed inside pressure cookers, folks are pointing to sources that say such devices are You-Know-Brown-Skinned-Who’s terror weapon of choice, such as this 2010 DHS report:

Rudimentary improvised explosive devices (IEDs) using pressure cookers to contain the initiator, switch, and explosive charge (typically ammonium nitrate or RDX) frequently have been used in Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Pressure cookers are common in these countries, and their presence probably would not seem out of place or suspicious to passersby or authorities.

Well! That certainly settles it! Except…

Because they are less common in the United States…

“Less common”. Meaning not exactly frequent, but not entirely unknown.

And definitely not unknown to the melanin-deprived set:

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The “Gateway Pundit” is far from alone in rushing to persecute an innocent victim of the Boston Marathon bombing — Hi, Pam! — but his eagerness to visually identify the not-suspect is illustrative:

Let’s run down that post, taking care not to name the poor guy, who’s suffered enough…

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Like hell we’re going to bed with that horrorshow at the top of the stack.

[via Know Your Meme]

This ain’t pretty. No suspects yet.

NBC: “Multiple explosive devices found, at least 2 which exploded”.

NBC: “Small homemade bomb is preliminary cause of explosion at Boston Marathon”

Explosions Reported At The Boston Marathon; Dozens Injured [Deadspin]

Live Updates on Explosions at the Boston Marathon [NYT]

Updates @BostonGlobe [Twitter]

“So how do you keep a party torn between those needing to govern and those elected to prevent governing? You stick to the easy stuff — like hating gays. At a Republican National Committee meeting in Los Angeles on Friday, members unanimously voted to reaffirm its stand against same-sex marriage. The vote added to the language in the 2012 platform, urging the Supreme Court to ‘uphold the sanctity of marriage’ in their rulings on Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act.” [The National Memo]

This is Stilts. He is 18 months old. He lived at my vet’s office until last week, when he found a home.

Stilts wound up at the vet when a 10 year old threw him out the window because he did not come when called. His back legs were broken to the extent that he almost lost one of them.

The vet put him back together. He now walks normally, and I saw him jump onto a 4 foot high counter with no problem.

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“Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.” —Justin Bieber, signing the guestbook at the Anne Frank House. [WaPo]