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Harper’s legal affairs contributor Scott Horton will be interviewed this evening on the Mike Malloy show, a nationally syndicated show on the Nova-M network. The show can be heard online at www.novamradio.com, on Sirius satellite channel 146, on XM satellite channel 167, and on about a dozen terrestrial AM stations. Sam Seder is filling in tonight for Mike Malloy. Scott will be appearing around 10:30 p.m. Eastern, 9:30 Central, 7:30 Pacific time to discuss Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s appearances before the Senate and House Judiciary Committees and the issues that were discussed, including waterboarding and the investigations into the firing of the eight U.S. Attorneys and the destruction of the CIA tapes.
More from Scott Horton:
No Comment — April 12, 2013, 11:11 am
A new report from Seton Hall University exposes government surveillance of attorney-client conversations
No Comment, Six Questions — March 18, 2013, 9:00 am
Rashid Khalidi on how the United States sustains the failure of the Israel-Palestine peace process
No Comment, Six Questions — February 4, 2013, 9:00 am
Alex Gibney on his documentary investigating the Roman Catholic Church’s handling of child sex-abuse cases


Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)

A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”

The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.