Blog Heap of Links for the day 2 June 2011

RepWeiner Gives Worst Press Conference EVAH! (Video)

An aspiring doctor was killed in a horrific subway accident yesterday when she passed out on a sweltering Upper East Side platform and fell onto the tracks -- realizing what happened too late to escape an uptown train bearing down on her.

Retired Marine Staff Sergeant Tim Chambers has stood at this post since 2002. "It's an extremely long time to hold a salute that long," says Air Force Master Sergeant Russ Ware of Columbia, MD. "Takes a lot determination and a lot of discipline. This guy does it every year." With a stiff spine and straight shoulders, this lone marine stands at attention as the Rolling Thunder rumbles by...for more than three hours. "They zoom by me and I'm getting an eyeball at them," says Chambers. "I'm trying to give every one of them that 'Welcome home' they didn't get." Chamber says it started as a spontaneous 'Thank you' nine years ago but has now become his moral obligation.

They lambaste her as trivial, while obsessing over her shoes, glasses, and hair — and turning one of her misspelled words on Twitter into Watergate. They label her a grievance-monger for calling out media double standards and then kvetch, moan, and wallow in a pool of self-pity when she doesn't spoon-feed them coveted political scoops. They call her dumb and then run around in circles trying to figure out her "mystery" tour and blame her for "faking them out." They blast her for incompetence, but grudgingly acknowledge that she is a master of social media who has changed the rules of the presidential campaign game.

A 40-year-old Bangladeshi woman cut off a man's penis during an alleged attempted rape and took it to a police station as evidence, police in a remote part of the country said Monday., MyFoxNY.com

The Maryland Transit Administration says more training may be called for after three MTA officers detained a man for taking pictures at a light rail station.