Watch the Right Wing Flip Out on This One

Here's an interesting bit of news: A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction stopping the law defunding ACORN. The judge evidently believes that ACORN is reasonably likely to win the argument that the law in question is an unconstitutional bill of attainder.

(The proximate cause of the law's passage was a seeming scandal in which ACORN was videotaped allegedly giving tax advice to a pimp and prostitute. The pimp in question was right-wing agent provocateur James O'Keefe, it was later revealed that tape in question was heavily and misleadingly edited. Evidently, O'Keefe has a history of that sort of thing (HT to fantwurm for that link). O'Keefe later got himself arrested for being involved in a scheme to wiretap a congressional office.)

Three Days of Rain

The MBTA service disruptions from the past three days of rain are quite something. I'd heard about the sandbags and emergency pumps between Kenmore and Fenway, but I hadn't heard about this. That's going to take a while to fix...