Norway gunman to plead not guilty; Atrios on pesky voters

PESKY VOTERS: Atrios seems to get it:

You'll have to find it yourself, but little Tommy Friedman has penned another tribute to "the radical center," those group of people who are neither radical nor of the center and who are the most overrepresented people in Washington. Still what they need isn't simply power, but love, the undying and undeniable love of voters which escapes them every couple of years. Tommy knows that the plush offices of a hedge fund money backed reincarnation of Unity '08, called Americans Elect, will finally stir the voters to endorse, with grass roots input of course, Everything Tommy Friedman Truly Believes. And, well, after that we might as well just stop with the whole voting thing. The people will have spoken, and the Plutocrat Party will begin their thousand year reign.

NORWAY GUNMAN TO PLEAD NOT GUILTY: The Guardian has the scoop. "Anders Behring Breivik has confessed to the bombing in Oslo and the mass shooting at a youth camp on Utøya island, but denied criminal responsibility. He said he wanted to start a revolution in Norwegian society to defeat liberal immigration policies and the spread of Islam."

One wonders exactly how this can work. It turns out, too, that the legal system in Norway is a bit strange: "A prisoner is required to spend at least 10 years in custody before becoming eligible for parole. It means Breivik could be out as early as 2021. However, it is technically possible for an offender to spend the rest of their life in prison, regardless of their sentence." How comforting.