The Connecticut Connection

MANIFESTO

I see that

A U.S. citizen who had recently returned from a five-month trip to his native Pakistan, where he had a family, was arrested at a New York airport on charges that he drove a bomb-laden SUV meant to cause a fireball in Times Square, federal authorities said.

While I realize that the suspect is a US citizen, I really wish he'd been some wingnut with a pathological ax to grind. The fact that another brown skinned Mideasterner tried to blow up New York will only promote the hysteria of Islamophobes such as the Constitution State's own Senator Sanctimony.

The fact that

FBI agents searched the home at a known address for Shahzad in Bridgeport, Conn., early Tuesday [and that] a phone number at a listed address for Shahzad [existed] in Shelton [where] he used to live in a two-story grayish-brown Colonial with a sloping yard in a working-class neighborhood

is sure to send the senator from AIPAC into paroxysms of anti-Arab vitriol.

Attorney General Holder has maintained that

U.S. authorities "will not rest until we have brought everyone responsible to justice," suggesting additional suspects are being sought.

This continuing investigation is sure to send Holy Joe and his ilk into further agitated tirades.

UPDATE — And out of the woodwork they come!