Day: November 16, 2018

Assange Has Been Charged, U.S. Prosecutors Reveal Inadvertently in Filing

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Apparently they made a copy-paste error in a completely separate case which inappropriately inserted Assange’s name into public court records.

Wow. Talk about dumbass moves.

(Assange was supposed to be charged secretly, I guess.)

“It’s unclear what Assange, who’s been living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, has been charged with. The existence of the charges was revealed in an August filing unsealed this month and confirmed Friday by a person familiar with the matter. The document begins with arguments related to the correct case, then picks up abruptly on the second page, saying ‘no other procedure is likely to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged.’”

The Mounties always get their man (or woman)

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Canada: Land of Excitement

The Supreme Court of Canada agreed Thursday to hear the case of a woman who was ticketed and arrested after she refused to hold onto an escalator handrail.

That fiend! I know Canada doesn’t believe in the death penalty, but they should probably make an exception in this case.

I have to say, though, as dumb as this is, that it must be great to live in a country where the police and the courts have nothing more pernicious than this to occupy their time.

Which reminds me.

One day when I lived in Norway, the major Oslo newspaper had a headline about a purse stolen at the airport. We’re talkin’ a major headline here, giant type, like “Pearl Harbor Bombed” or “Hitler Invades Poland.” And, yes, it was very nice to live in, and especially to raise children in, a country that safe and dull. (Sorry, but you won’t be able to recreate that. I hear that Norway now has sleaze and crime just like everyplace else.)

Elizabeth Hurley really knows how to do diplomacy

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Liz Hurley, 53, wears a perilously plunging dress to celebrate American tradition with Trump’s man in London.

The Daily Mail asks, “Is that gown REALLY suitable for Thanksgiving dinner with the US ambassador?”

Well of course it is. Low-cut dresses ARE American tradition, perhaps the most important one! By the way, Hurley has gone Full Trump with the suntan. She lives in England; it’s November; yet she’s darker than Tan Mom. (Apparently this has something to do with the Maldives or endives or one of the big dives.)