OMFG

the first item in Yahoo! News/World/Africa News is "New violence breaks out in East Timor".

Tonymandering in Texas

So the Supreme Court just ruled that PART of Tom Delay's remapping of Texas congressional districts violated the Voting Rights Act, but rejected the claim that the entire redistricting exercise constituted gerrymandering; and affirmed that state legislators may redraw maps as often as they see fit. In a dissent to the majority that found the Voting Rights Act violation, Chief Asshole Antonin Scalia "complained that the court should have shut the door on claims of political gerrymandering in map drawing," according to AP news. In other words, he wanted to remove any and all legal means by which injustices in the districting of voters could be redressed. Christ on a bike, is he even PRETENDING to uphold a democatic government anymore?