Who among us is surprised by this?
Sheriff’s deputies and investigators have broken a heroin distribution ring that dished out narcotics across more than half of Sullivan County.
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The alleged dealers were pushing a variety of heroin that they called “Obama.” Chaboty said dealers are known to stamp the glassine wax paper that carries the heroin with [...]
Rachel Maddow had Princeton’s Melissa Harris-Lacewell on last night to discuss the drama surrounding seats in the US Senate opened by Obama’s appointments. Naturally, the discussion focused primarily on the Blagojevich scandal. Watch the entire segment to hear Dr. Harris-Lacewell’s parting admonition:
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I stumbled across a link to this recent Slate piece on GK by Peter Maass. I’m posting about it here not just because it’s so favorable, but because part of it speaks exactly to a chain of thought I’ve been wrestling with as I’ve watched (and read) GK, which is the connection between these characters [...]
TWOP is going to be recapping Generation Kill, which I find surprising — given the mini-series-ness of the production.
Athenae hooked me up with this news a week or so ago. So why has it taken me so long to post it? Is it because some folks have grown kind of “meh, TWOP sux” lately, especially [...]
In New Orleans, and in urban areas all over the country, there’s a creepy conflation of the Wireverse and reality. There is surely some local version of Avon Barksdale or Marlo running the Iberville project, or a Bodie holding down the tower on Simon Bolivar Ave. Ray Nagin is just as craven and disconnected [...]
Snot Boogie died because he couldn’t change things up, even a little. Omar tried changing but it didn’t take. Dukie didn’t even know how to change unless someone else did it for him.
The tree that doesn’t bend breaks.
Bubbles and McNulty both tried and failed more than once, and they lived through it but others paid [...]
I’ve been wrestling with an sloppy and overlong post on the overall theme of paradox and contradiction in Ep 56 and right now, the post is winning. Partly in the interest of tightening that behemoth up, and partly in the interest of posting something, anything, before the week gets any older, I’ve excised this:
Carcetti’s not [...]
His head would explode.
Just tell us where this bridge is.
Oy.
NOT AN ENDORSEMENT, merely an observation.
Clip from near the end of Obama’s speech last night. Knowing that The Wire is his favorite show, did anyone else ponder a connection here? Not that it matters, because the story about those boys in the street is true no matter where you go, but does anyone know if [...]
As I was stumbling through the links to the links to the links, I read this Rolling Stone interview for the first time.
Yeah, it’s over a year old but there’s not a blogger at this joint that doesn’t think about New Orleans every single day. Indeed, it’s part of the glue that brought this particularly [...]
