Archive for March 28th, 2014

FAQ.

Friday, March 28th, 2014

In case you’re coming into the Leland Yee/Raymond “Shrimp Boy” scandal late, and haven’t been reading this blog or Battleswarm, the LAT has a handy guide to the affair, which answers many of the burning questions (such as “why is he called ‘Shrimp Boy’?”).

(I cannot tell a lie: I enjoy typing Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow. Almost as much as – no, strike that, I enjoy it even more than typing Robert “Ratso” Rizzo.)

Also, in case you were wondering, the California state Senate has suspended Sen. Yee without pay. The same august body has also suspended Sen. Roderick White, who was convicted of perjury and voter fraud, and Sen. Ronald Calderon, indicted on bribery and corruption charges.

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Random notes: March 28, 2014.

Friday, March 28th, 2014

Man is released from death row after 46 years, after courts rule that his confession was coerced and evidence against him was fabricated.

Williamson County? No. Texas? No. Japan.

More on Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow. And more. Since I made the observation the other day:

His grandmother coined the “Shrimp Boy” nickname on account of his small stature. Clocking in at 5’5 today, the name stuck.

(And you should also be reading Battleswarm: Lawrence has been able to devote a little more time to his coverage than I have.)

I stumbled across this while looking for “Shrimp Boy” links:

Marilyn Hartman, the 62-year-old woman busted three times for trying to sneak onto a plane at San Francisco International Airport — and arrested another time for hanging around the food court — is back in custody yet again.

I have nothing to say about this story, I just want to insert an obscure reference here:

(Perhaps they could give her a job: maybe keeping people from hanging around the food court.)

Item: Bronze window frames. Bill: $2.38 million. Fun fact: The cost was supposed to be half that. But Tebartz-van Elst, the report shows, really wanted his window frames to be bronze.

(Previously. WP article also contains yet another photo of the bishop’s residence that looks like a Thomas Kinkade painting, but at least this one wasn’t taken with a fish-eye lens.)

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