Russia's ghastly Children's Rights Commissioner finally quits
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1K8TQ)
Pavel Astakhov -- celebrity lawyer, courtroom TV star, crime novelist, reciter of impromptu religious poetry -- has finally met a scandal he couldn't laugh off: when he met with the children who'd survived a boating accident that killed 14 of their friends, he opened with "So, how was the swim?" (more")