and then in the next, glorifying all the mothers of the world. Perhaps only one who has lost a child in such a manner would pick up on the subtlety of that full frontal insensitivity, but I felt it, nonetheless.

The GloatAnd I suffer it in lesser form again today. Just days ago, I stood up at Safeco Field, proudly belting out Oh Canada and then immediately switching to an equally heartfelt, "O say does that star spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?" I felt very Americanadian and dually patriotric, singing both anthems and rejoicing in my stars, stripes and maple leaf hybridity. Unbeknownst to me, the revised July immigration bulletin was already being drafted for release today.

The LamentToday,What if you pulled out your cell phone to record video or audio of officers making a arrest, are you "secretly" recording? No seems like a common sense answer, but not according to the Boston Police Department. Appeals were heard on Wednesday in the United States First Circuit Court of Appeals. The city denied that the man they arrested had his First or Fourth Amendment rights violated, according to Ars Technica.

In 2007, Simon Glik witnessed the arrest of another man and pulled out his cell phone to record the account. A police officer approached Glik, and Glik said he was recording the encounter because the suspect had been punched by another officer. Glik was subsequently arrested. Many states have "one-party notification" laws that allow any party that is