Turkish bombs: Things get hot in Kurdistan, 120 guerrillas said to be killed.
Uzbek deaths: "Kyrgyzstan's interim leader Rosa Otunbayeva said today that the death toll from savage ethnic violence in the south of the country could be as high as 2,000, as she paid her first visit to the region since the unrest began."
Sometimes it's best not to apologize: "BP’s cause was hardly helped by 'Smoky Joe' Barton, a reliable friend of big coal and big oil and no stranger to rhetorical excess."
Shakespearean drama: A deeply indebted British man living with his ma in a council flat steals a first folio of Shakespeare's plays to finance the allowance he kept sending to a Cuban waitress he fell in love with. True story. Some playwright better get on this shit now.
Clemmons's sister gets five years: "LaTanya Clemmons, 34, had no criminal history and potentially faced six to 12 months under the standard sentencing range. But prosecutors argued the extraordinary case merited an extra-long sentence. Pierce County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Arend agreed. She told Clemmons that although her actions 'would not have changed the fate of the officers,' they did delay the capture of the getaway driver and prolonged the anxiety of the community and the officers' grieving families."
To be clear: LaTanya Clemmons had her maximum sentence quintupled for causing anxiety. Lady had no prior record, tried to get her brother treatment during his psychotic break, and gets five years for panicking and following her familial instincts. What she did wasn't right, but the punishment is outstripping the crime.
Murder trial in Yakima: 19-year-olds (allegedly) kill 18-year-old in Sunnyside, WA.
Suspects in Belltown murder arrested in Long Beach, California (no link because Slog just got the email from the prosecutor's office): "Yesterday afternoon the KCPAO filed a second degree murder charge, a rendering criminal assistance in the first degree charge and intimidating a witness charge against three different suspects in the shooting death Thearra Steve Sok on June 6th in the Belltown neighborhood in Seattle."
"The volume and complexity of the knowledge that we need to master has grown exponentially beyond our capacity as individuals": Atul Gawande's unsettling commencement address at Stanford's school of medicine.
The Lakers took the Celtics: But Boston put up a damn good fight.
Congratulations to Stranger Theater Genius Paul Mullin: Louis Slotin Sonata goes to Chicago.
Today in inappropriate observations: Aung San Suu Kyi used to be foxy.
A neat old slide show of Seattle bars:
