What's going on?

Open Thread.

I'm just getting online today -- way too busy with work -- so I have nothing for you. It will be the same tomorrow and Wednesday it's a week filled with hearings, jail visits, motions and conferences. I'm about to skim the 300 plus emails in my in box.

So the owner of the Times Square SUV sold it to a stranger a few weeks ago. He's not under suspicion. Authorities say the stranger is Pakistani and a CT resident who paid cash, and recently traveled to Pakistan. How do they know that? Was the car owner able to discern nationality? Did he view a drivers' license showing a CT residence? It doesn't sound like the buyer ever registered the vehicle. The "Pakistani" man is now a person of interest.

Have there been any photos of this bomb? Was it even assembled? Or was it just a bunch of potentially dangerous components? Sounds like the latter. And the fertilizer was not the kind that explodes.

Our last open thread is getting cumbersome, here's another one, all topics welcome.

Busy. Anyone know if Joe Arpaio is going to run for Governor in Arizona? He is supposed to announce today.

Open Thread.

Celebrity Apprentice continues. No one got fired last week, and Donald Trump says two people may be fired tonight. Another Trump son, Eric, makes his debut as a set of "eyes and ears" for Trump. It's good to see Bret Michaels, especially with the news he's expected to make a full recovery. I hope he doesn't get fired tonight.

There's also Pacific, Desperate Housewives and Brothers and Sisters. What are you watching?

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon here, too nice to stay at the computer. What haven't we written about that you'd like to discuss? Here's an open thread, all topics welcome.

This being the first Saturday in May, the Kentucky Derby will be contested at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Run For the Roses. The Most Exciting 2 Minutes in Sports. The Derby is rife with cliches and catch phrases. I have no feeling for today's race, which will be on a sloppy track with no clear favorite. There certainly is no Secretariat in the field. Speaking of Secretariat:

The 1973 Derby had an amazing field. Forego was in the race too.

Open Thread.

The Wall St. Journal (subscription only) is reporting the feds have opened a criminal investigation into Goldman Sachs.

Wired has outed the guy who sold the lost iPhone 4g prototype to Gizmodo. He says he regrets his mistake.

President Obama interviewed 9th Circuit Appeals Court Judge Sydney Thomas from Montana for the Supreme Court today. More names are now on the list, including:

Obama's list of potential nominees for the court includes Elena Kagan, the U.S. solicitor general; Diane Wood, a U.S. appeals court judge in Chicago and Merrick Garland, a U.S. appeals court judge in Washington, D.C.

Also on the list are: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; Martha Minow, the dean of Harvard Law School; Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm; Ann Claire Williams, a judge on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; and Leah Ward Sears, who retired last year as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Who's going home on Survivor? Right now it looks like Russell unless he pulls off a coup. Tribal council is just starting in this time zone.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

It already feels like Friday to me, this week has been so busy. I'm sure BTD, who is in depositions this week, feels the same way.

For those of you following the news, here's an open thread, all topics welcome.

I haven't been following Goldman Sachs or today's financial hearings. If you have, feel free to weigh in.

It's American Idol with Shania Twain tonight (Crystal and Lee are locks in my view), DWTS (will Jake go home?) Biggest Loser and the Good Wife tonight. I haven't even watched "24" from last night or Pacific, Desperate Housewives and Brothers and Sisters from Sunday yet.

Boycott Arizona!

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

It doesn't happen often, but this is another week that both BTD and I are locked into our day jobs. BTD has depositions all week, and I've spent the past 96 hours straight (with a few for shut-eye) reviewing and re-reviewing 15,000 pages of wiretap applications and orders, and 19,000 intercepted telephone calls to draft motions to suppress. The last was filed at midnight. There are 22 defendants in the case which means all their motions have to be read as well, and then a seocnd set of motions filed adopting the grounds in their motions that might fit my client.

So BTD is in depositions Tuesday, Weds. and Thurs. and traveling Friday, and I'm going to be in time-out today so I can shake all the details out of my head and move on to the next case for a while.

What this means for you, is a lot of open threads this week and fewer blog posts by me unless they are related to a topic I am very interested in: which means criminal cases, celebrity illnesses (I'm still sending good thoughts to Bret Michaels)and trying to maintain my sanity.

I hope you are having a more relaxed week than BTD and I are. Which is why, we'd like you all to take over in the open threads.

Thanks everyone, and I'll be back as soon my eyes lose their blurriness from reading so many documents, and I can focus on something other than what's right in front of me. Hope you understand.

Via Digby, the conservative Arizona Republic editorializes:

[Arizona Gov.] Brewer's televised signing ceremony for this harsh, unnecessary legislation constitutes the low point of an administration we have come to admire for its often surprising grit in the face of hard times. We held out hope for more.

Whether Arizona pays a price for indulging the whims of state Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, is no longer the issue. We are paying a price. Not since the dismal days of our nationally infamous fight over a holiday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has the profile of Arizona descended this low.

(Emphasis supplied.) Meanwhile, Lindsey Graham is upset that Democrats want to take up immigration reform. If there was ever a doubt that Republicans loathe Latinos, this removes it.

Open Thread.

Boycott Arizona! What a Boycott Can Mean:

In 1982, President Reagan signed a bill making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday, but it wasn’t until almost a decade later that Arizona finally recognized it. In the meantime, the state lost NFL support and Super Bowl XXVII. The game — and the economic boost that comes with a Super Bowl — was to have been held at Tempe’s Sun Devil Stadium in 1993, but was moved to California to protest the state’s failure to recognize the holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader.

No Super Bowls for Arizona. The Fiesta Bowl out of the BCS in the next negotiations. This can be effective pressure.

Open Thread.