Random Things of Interest

Who exactly gave the order to confiscate guns in New Orleans after Katrina? Was it just that police chief Edwin Compass decided on his own or by Mayor Ray Nagin or did the order come from higher up? Like Blackwater? Note the $33.3 million contract Blackwater got to work in New Orleans after Katrina.

Conservative Republicans are still the fucking worst conspiracy theorists: Five Of The Craziest Conspiracy Theories That The Freshman Republican Class Will Bring To Congress

The Dark Side of Pope Francis I.

"The Pedophocracy" by David McGowan-- a series of essays on the crime of pedophilia and the bizarre legal cases and lack of serious punishment.