Today is the 44th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Vigils are being held across the nation.
A suspect has been charged in the WI Planned Parenthood bombing: 50-year old Francis Grady, who may have had a history of attending anti-choice protests.
Today’s reminder that people suck: Residents of Anchorage, Alaska voted down Proposition 5, which would have added civil rights protections to the LGBT community.
In 2011, California spent $9.6 billion on prisons, compared to $5.7 billion on higher education.
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A 5:30 PM update to the Francis Grady story on the same site says he confessed to doing it, that he says he used gasoline and not a bomb, and it was because “they were killing babies”.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/planned-parenthood-bombing-suspect-says-he-did-it
Does anyone know why he’s wearing the thing around his neck, was he injured?