Disrupted!

I’ve been juggling my schedule some, which yesterday left me without any time to blog (I had a writer’s group in the evening). So here’s some links to set things right—Wednesday posts to follow later:
Think Progress lists some of the uglier responses to the Boston bombing, including, of course that Muslims Did It (“Jihad in Boston.” “Yes, they’re evil. Let’s kill them all.”) Glenn Greenwald points out that the history of It’s the Muslims charges before the facts are in goes all the way back to Oklahoma City (he also notes there have been equally unknowable claims it was right-wingers). LGM argues that even if it’s not Muslims, the effect of screaming that it is helps frame the debate.
And while you’ve probably already seen it, here’s a link to Patton Oswald’s declaration that “The good outnumber you, and we always will.” Stephen Jay Gould made much the same point about 9/11 (and I believe, Columbine, though I may be crediting him with someone else’s work): Instead of judging humanity just by the killers, we should judge humanity also by the first responders, by the people who rush in to help, by the people who die to save someone else.
•Erik Loomis says the difference between right-wing and left-wing terrorism is that currently, there ain’t much of the second. Whereas right-wing terrorism has launched more attacks than Islam (as I touch on here). And no, that’s not a veiled way to imply Boston was a right-wing plot.
•Greenwald, in the link above, points out that what happened in Boston isn’t that different from what we do in the Islamic world on a daily basis. Here he notes we’re continuing to hold Muslims for more than a decade, even though they’ve been cleared for release.
•Speaking of our activities in Pakistan, it seems our drone strikes are (gasp!) not as carefully targeted as the White House says.
•A black woman tries to get her Kate Spade wallet repaired. The store’s response: Can you prove it’s yours? The wallet-owner’s white friend takes it in and gets it exchanged on the spot.
I’ll make the usual observation this is only one side of the story, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all. Some of you may remember an even worse incident in 1995, where two black teenagers were confronted in an Eddie Bauer store about the fact they were wearing Eddie Bauer shirts. When they didn’t have receipts handy (who carries receipts for something they’re wearing), a guard forced one of the kids to remove his shirt (he eventually got it back).
•LGM looks at right-wing claims the Gosnell case proves we need tougher abortion restrictions.