Breaking news out of Duke, regarding the time line of the alleged rape. Cops were there, at the scene of the possible crime, minutes before the victim called in her report (from some distance away) investigating a 911 disturbance call, in which a woman claimed that she and her friend were walking by the place and were called nasty names by white guys. The 911 caller's version of the story of this name calling changed several times in the telling, in important ways. The cops on the scene were there for eleven minutes, found no evidence of anything untoward going on. And it's worth noting that the DA is backtracking on the importance of the as-yet unreleased DNA evidence, saying that a lack of DNA evidence doesn't prove that the guys she's accusing didn't rape her; after all, we used to prosecute rape without DNA evidence, didn't we? Which seems a somewhat specious stance, to say the least; a statement from a guy standing on a seriously leaky raft. Anyway. While I'm second to none in my contempt for rapists, this whole thing is beginning to smell like a Tawana Brawley situation. A number of innocent men were destroyed in that little fiasco, if you care to look it up.