Protesters in New Orleans clash with cops, as the city council approves demolition of 4,500 public housing units. “City Council members — some sipping water, others leafing through file folders — looked on impassively as a man was tasered, handcuffed and dragged from the council chambers.”

Newsflash: Using the video game Mortal Kombat as a defense to killing a 7-year-old won’t cut it.

Don’t write off John Edwards yet—the candidate “who at the start of the month was polling barely 10 percent in most surveys.[..] is at 18 percent [in New Hampshire]. As in Iowa, where he is now essentially tied for the lead with Obama, Edwards is the candidate who is closing fastest at the Holiday season gives way to the actual caucusing and voting.”

Older white women are apparently a growing block of tourists enjoying the sex trade in Kenya, “a country they say is ‘just full of big young boys who like us older girls.’”

The oldest WWI vet dies, leaving just two left.

Quote of the day: “They just took the baby Jesus and left the pigs head.”