Nick Hornby interviews David Simon, who explains The Wire from square one. It's great. Lots of McNulty-style righteous anger.

Quoted: We hang out in the Baltimores of the world, writing what we want to write about and never keeping one eye on whether or not it could sell as much as a drama that had, say, more white faces, more women with big tits, and more stuff that blows up or squirts blood real good.

Quoted: So we are misfits, and while we hope the show is entertaining enough, none of us think of ourselves as providing entertainment. The impulse is, again, either journalistic or literary. Hope this helps and doesn’t sound as wrought and pompous as I think it does.

A little of both, but we forgive you.

An interview with Bubbs on the eve of the Season 5 premier.

Quoted: As long as there’s a character I can find some meaning in, I’ll do it. But being on The Wire has made looking at other shows and other scripts a little bit more difficult.

I saw this story on BBC and didn't realize that MSU was involved in the discovery. Maybe the law college can work Dr. Crippen into its "Innocents" display of inmates exonerated by DNA evidence.

Quoted: Loaded with enough sordid details and twists to eventually fuel more than 40 books and several movies, this London case is second only to Jack the Ripper in its sensational notoriety.

Here's a nice story to go with the Dallas D.A. story I dotted earlier this week.

Quoted: JOLIET, IL—George Howard Buell, wrongly convicted of rape and burglary, won’t stop yammering about his innocence.

Great story out of Dallas.

Quoted: After taking office, Mr. Watkins wasted little time before making changes in what he called the conviction-at-all-costs mentality, supposedly for the victims’ sake.