Ben Barnes to break silence on "60 Minutes". The Republican campaign gets ready for shock waves, as the former Texas official who says he pulled strings to get George W. Bush into the Air National Guard finally goes public. [Salon.com]

I reckon that this is a don't-miss-this-bit-of-history broadcast.

With Barnes now being featured in a sit-down interview with "60 Minutes," the highly rated CBS news magazine, reporters may finally be forced to address the consistent curiosities of Bush's National Guard record. Such as why, after nearly a decade of sifting through military records, neither Bush nor his team of longtime advisors can piece together a coherent explanation for his whereabouts, particularly after April 1972 when Bush inexplicably stopped flying and moved to Alabama, failed to take his physical exam, was grounded by his superiors, and by all accounts failed to show up for weekend training for months at a time. Bush received an honorable discharge in 1973 in order to attend Harvard Business School. Bush supporters insist the honorable discharge proves his service was above reproach. But military legal experts note honorable discharges, particularly in the early '70s as the Vietnam War was winding down, do not indicate unblemished military records.

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So let me get this right- Kansas has locked up a young man for being gay and retarded?

Reprinted by Permission: KS Supreme Court Hears Appeal of Gay Teen. In the ongoing saga of Matthew Limon, sentenced to 17 years in prison for having gay sex, the Kansas Supreme Court is hearing the ACLU appeal on his behalf...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Contact: Chris Hampton *!*! Kurtenbach

TOPEKA, KS - The American Civil Liberties Union today asked the Kansas Supreme Court to reduce the sentence of a young man who is serving 16 years more in...

In February of 2000, Limon and another male teenager were both students at the same residential school for developmentally disabled youth in Miami County, Kansas. A week after Limon's 18th birthday, he performed consensual oral sex on the other teenager, who was nearly 15 years old - three years, one month and a few days younger. Because Kansas's so-called "Romeo and Juliet" law gives much lighter sentences to heterosexual teenagers who have sex with younger teens but specifically excludes gay teenagers, Limon was sentenced to 17 years in prison. A heterosexual teenager with the same record would serve no longer than 15 months for the same offense. [morons.org headlines]

What The Fuck?!?!?

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Eye see action figures.

The eyes have it. David Pescovitz: On eBay, a box of twenty SFX artificial eyeballs.

"Made of a durable polymure-resin-glass compound these eyes are lifelike. Very high quality. Great to collect, use for props or Halloween coming up soon. Professional. Many colors."

Link (Thanks, Michael-Anne!)

[Boing Boing]

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