More here and here on the arrests in Baltimore which Splice editor Andrew Sargus Klein mentioned in his column, "Obama the Figurehead."
It struck me, then--the pathetic and surreal absurdity of my
situation. Why was I, a 42-year-old husband and father of two young daughters,
a senior employee of Johns Hopkins, a freelance journalist, and a law-abiding,
civic-minded guy, sitting in my piss-soaked underwear in the back of a paddy
wagon outside the Northern District police station?The
day had begun with such promise.