How the mighty hath fallen

24 June 2011

Whitey Bulger, who used to be the FBI’s second-most-wanted man, told a Federal magistrate in California that he needs a court-appointed attorney.

You’d think that a retired mob boss facing nineteen murder charges would have enough loot stashed away, somewhere, to hire a good lawyer. Maybe he invested his ill-gotten gains with Bernie Madoff.

politics

Later: The mutant as [ethnic slur]
Earlier: How I convinced my child to go the f—k to sleep