Via Slate's Today's Papers with a new link:
The NYT fronts the differences between terror suspects tried with crimes in U.S. courts and those held as "enemy combatants" and tried by the military in an attempt to discern the rules after last week's reversal in the Jose Padilla case. Their conclusion is the White House assigns (and reassigns) the status of suspects solely to shield its broad investigatory powers from scrutiny in the courts. The upshot is a judicial game of Calvinball with the DOJ standing in for the capricious 7-year-old.
I'd amend the rules, as is my right, to note that in this case "any player" [pursuant to rule 1.2] does not include any defendant. Or, rather, "declare" as to such players should be considered purely hortatory.
Anyway, my local paper has recently started to include old Calvin and Hobbes strips a la the "Peanuts Classics" deal (I caught part of the Thanksgiving Special on Thursday ... charming). As suggested by the few shown at the Calvinball link, this is a positive development.