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Thursday Night Open Thread

By Jeralyn

The Wall St. Journal (subscription only) is reporting the feds have opened a criminal investigation into Goldman Sachs.

Wired has outed the guy who sold the lost iPhone 4g prototype to Gizmodo. He says he regrets his mistake.

President Obama interviewed 9th Circuit Appeals Court Judge Sydney Thomas from Montana for the Supreme Court today. More names are now on the list, including:

Obama's list of potential nominees for the court includes Elena Kagan, the U.S. solicitor general; Diane Wood, a U.S. appeals court judge in Chicago and Merrick Garland, a U.S. appeals court judge in Washington, D.C.

Also on the list are: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; Martha Minow, the dean of Harvard Law School; Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm; Ann Claire Williams, a judge on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; and Leah Ward Sears, who retired last year as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Who's going home on Survivor? Right now it looks like Russell unless he pulls off a coup. Tribal council is just starting in this time zone.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 30, 2010 (boomark / email).