Say hello to Southern Exposure, a new group weblog on latin american affairs. One of the contributors is Randy Paul, author of the excellent blog on the same topic, Beautiful Horizons.[link via Calpundit]

Ezra Klein of Not Geniuses is moving over to Jesse Taylor's Pandagon. We think it's a great move for both of them.

Update: Someone hacked into the "Blogs We Like" section on the right and substituted repetitive listings of something called "Laura's blog". We don't know Laura and we've deleted the blogroll until we can get it fixed. Hopefully by tonight. Has this happened to anyone else?

Pacific Views does a great job of summing up the Saturday blogs.

We're on the road today, off to Washington for a board meeting of the ABA's Criminal Justice Section Council. There are a lot of important issues on the six page agenda, but the ones we're most interested in are the recommendations of the Innocence Committee to ensure the integrity of the criminal justice system, and recommendations on the Victory Act and SAFE Act.

This is not a group where defense lawyers are preaching to the choir. It is roughly equally composed of prosecutors, defense counsel, judges and law professors.

We'll have our computer for light blogging over the weekend, but we won't be back at full speed until Sunday night. Please enjoy the great sites listed on the right, feel free to toss us a tip through the paypal or amazon links at the left and have a great weekend.

Arthur Silber at Light of Reason has announced that the LA transit strike has done him in financially and he will be putting the blog on hiatus. He explains why the strike matters so much to him here. We're really sorry to hear this as Arthur's voice is one we highly respect. He does have a paypal button if you can spare a few dollars. We hope he'll be back.

Atrios thanks his lawyer who helped him with the Donald Luskin threat to expose his identity and sue him. It is none other than Alabama lawyer Sam Heldman, who writes the blog Ignatz, currently on hiatus. Great job, Sam.

Atrios will be donating his paypal donations for six weeks to a very worthy organization--the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, which provides quality legal representation to those on death row and those without funds to retain counsel. Alabama is a nasty Southern state when it comes to the rights of the accused. Give all you can. You can give directly to EJI by mailing a check to them (let Atrios know because he's keeping a tally):

Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama
122 Commerce Street
Montgomery, AL 36104

Atrios, you're a mensch. And, of course, so is Sam.

Terry at Nitpicker is being called to Iraq. He's looking for someone to take over writing his blog for a year. You can e-mail him at nitpickerblog@hotmail.com. It's really a good blog. We hope someone keeps it going for him.

Baby Kos, now called Ari, is home with his happy and tired parents. Kos wrote the most amazing story of the 23 hour labor and birth that you can read over at his baby blog, FishyShark. You should read it. Kos is a amazing story teller and writes in riveting detail about all 23 hours of Elisa's labor. We read it in one sitting, holding our breath the entire time. Congrats to Markos and Elisa, and to Ari, a big welcome to the Planet earth. Kos and Elisa, you done good!

Dwight Meredith, writing for Wampum Blog hits the proverbial nail on the head in deciphering the "joint statement" released by Atrios and Donald Luskin settling their (happily) short-lived feud:

Luskin: Man, did I ever screw the pooch? Having a lawyer write the letter threatening suit against Atrios was a stupid mistake. Not only would any such lawsuit be frivolous, but the truck-load of scorn heaped upon me by the blogosphere has decimated whatever small shreds of credibility I may have previously possessed. Therefore, I have decided to fold my cards and cut my losses.

Atrios: Okay.

Go over and read how Dwight arrived at this analysis.

T. Christopher Kelly writes on TalkLeft as TChris.

He is a member of Kelly & Habermehl, S.C., a law firm based in Madison, Wisconsin. His practice concentrates on the defense of individuals and organizations accused of crime in federal and state courts, with a special emphasis on appellate and post-conviction representation.

In 2005, he was the lead attorney in United States v. Booker, a Supreme Court case that struck down mandatory federal sentencing guidelines as violating the Sixth Amendment.

This appeared on Donald Luskin's and Atrios's weblogs today:

A JOINT STATEMENT FROM DONALD LUSKIN AND ATRIOS We both regret a series of misunderstandings that have resulted in something that neither of us intended. We have discussed our differences, and both of us are confident that such misunderstandings will not occur again in the future. As a result, Mr. Luskin is retracting his demand letter of October 29, 2003. We congratulate each other on having quickly achieved an amicable resolution. We are both glad to have put this behind us.

A credit to both of them for resolving the matter without a lawsuit.

About 15 minutes after our last post on Sunday night, we got hit by food poisoning and a fever that reached 101, sending us to the doctor Monday morning and then back to bed until just now. We're going to try to make it to work today, we should be back here tonight.