• then The Who’s Pete Townsend was put on a sex-offender list for reg­is­ter­ing for a child porn site in 1999. He claimed it was for book research. Despite the case, Townsend was not found in pos­ses­sion of any images by Scot­land Yard and had coop­er­ated with the inves­ti­ga­tion. He was cleared of any wrongdoing.
• now Townsend, who’s play­ing at the Super Bowl tonight, is get­ting an ear­ful from Child Abuse­Watch, which is using the case to draw atten­tion to child abuse issues. Townsend’s take? “It’s an issue that’s very dif­fi­cult to deal with in sound bites.… I kind of feel like we’re all on the same side.” source

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million for Palestinians who take Israeli soldiers hostage source

• In the best of times you would have seen a situation where other lenders would certainly have been willing to consider getting into this business. In the current environment, given the constraints on credit generally, there’s not enough capacity out there.
• Pryor Cashman bankruptcy group law partner Mark Jacobs • Discussing the shape of the market that CIT specializes in. The company, which is well-known for lending to small businesses, already dried up much of its lending due to the credit crunch and the company’s own financial woes. While the CIT says it will continue operating normally as it works its way through Chapter 11, businesses concerned about dealing with a bankrupt company have few other places to turn. In other words, a company that few people have heard of has huge amounts of power over businesses you go to every day. And that company just went bankrupt. Oh CIT. • source

23,947

are boycotting it on Facebook source

2,500

wins for the Cardinals boss; he’s 1 of just 3 source

• By merely joining this group, you have all shown the restraint and intelligence necessary to not jump to conclusions and be able to read news stories with a fair eye.
• A message from the Facebook group “Phil Markoff is Innocent Until Proven Guilty” • The group, currently 218 members strong, is getting outsized media coverage considering its size. Despite this, police note that the case is fairly open-and-shut, as the murder weapon was found in Markoff’s apartment. • source