O'Malley says he would veto a medical marijuana bill*. .. why can't he just direct the state and local police to not enforce marijuana laws, a la "Maryland the Free State" during Prohibition? Could anyone's interests possibly be served by cancer patients sitting in jail? .. and could the federal law-enforcement $$ have anything to do with O'Malley's position...?

And what to make of O'Malley going against the very study his administration paid to have done and going ahead with building a new $70-$100 million kiddie jail? Yes, he can find the money to build jails but not to fix schools, y'all.

Beat down at poly

Five students from poly have been arrested and charged with 1st degree assault and armed robbery for jumping a fellow classmate.

Fake genitals; fetus-murder charges dropped

A city officer who was dating a relative of a suspect in the Monae Turnage murder has been suspended.

Murder charges have been dropped against the NJ doctors who started an abortion in one state, finished it in another and stashed fetuses in the freezer.

Fake genitals were found on a guy arrested for indecent exposure at Anne Arundel Community College, begging the question, is it indecent exposure if what's exposed is plastic?

Speaking of make-believe genitals, the NYker is reporting that in Lawrence v. Texas, no sodomy ever actually took place; the most "deviant" thing police saw was "sexually explicit art on the walls, notably a pencil drawing of a naked James Dean with oversized genitals."

Finally, the "Atlantic Wire" says that the Sun says that wiretaps of "Snoop" (Felicia Pearson) reveal her to be, in real life, a nice person just looking for some "ew-we," wtvr the f that is.

Concealed Carry for Maryland?

A US District Court judge has ruled that Maryland's law on who can carry a concealed weapon is unconstitutional*. According to Judge Benson Legg the requirement that concealed carry permit applicants show "good and substantial reason" is an impermissible infringement on the Second Amendment. The AG's office has already said they will appeal.

Monae Turnage, 13, shot to death

The murdered 13-year-old girl was ID'd as Monae Turnage. She was shot once in the chest, her body hid in an alley under trash bags.

Another Young Girl Murdered

For the second time in a week a young girl has been murdered in Baltimore City. An unidentified 13-year-old girl, who was originally reported missing late last night was found dead at around 6:00 PM Sunday inside a row house in the 1600 block of Cliftview Ave.*