One month after bombs shattered the euphoria at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, investigators say suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note on the wall of the boat he was hiding in before he surrendered to police on April 19. Scrawled in pen, his message—and the makeshift dry board he scribbled it on—were riddled with bullet holes. He himself was bleeding from gunshot wounds he sustained during an earlier shootout between police and his older brother, Tamerlan, the accused co-conspirator in the attacks that senselessly killed three and injured 264. Even down to what could’ve very well been his last moments, Tsarnaev was passionate in his zealotry and dedicated to his cause. And he fired off a whole mini-manifesto about it.

There is certain bad behavior I expect to get a passenger in trouble for while flying. For example, getting out of your seat when the pilot has instructed everyone to strap in; getting so drunk you make a scene and disturb others; and, of course, putting your hands on someone (be it crew or a fellow traveler). But I was surprised to hear that a Virgin Atlantic passenger was detained by FBI agents for not flushing the toilet.

A second arrest has been made in connection to the ricin-laced letters mailed to President Obama and two others. The FBI arrested Martial Arts Instructor J. Everett Dutschke in Tupelo, Mississippi early this morning. Let's hope this time they got their man! We just don't need an unsolved domestic terrorism case in America right now.

This arrest is the second in the ricin letter case. The first suspect was Elvis impersonator Paul Kevin Curtis who declared his innocence from the beginning and was later released for insufficient evidence. However, it was Curtis who first named Dutschke. Apparently, the two had been feuding for years. Yes, the Elvis impersonator believes he was framed by the Martial Arts instructor.

I knew it wasn't the Elvis impersonator!

During a press conference Thursday, Mayor Bloomberg and other New York City officials revealed that the Boston bombers had planned on attacking Times Square using the leftover bombs from their Boston Marathon assault. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told FBI agents that while he and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev were on the run in a hijacked SUV, they talked about taking their explosives to NYC and detonating them in the heart of the city.

When she learned of the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaeva's mother, Zubeidat, called her older son to make sure he was okay. He responded casually, laughing, and said, "Mama, why are you worrying?" Fast-forward to just before the shootout that left Tamerlan with fatal injuries. Zubeidat says Tamerlan called her and uttered his last words: "The police, they have started shooting at us, they are chasing us. ... Mama, I love you." Then, the phone went silent.

It's not really much of a surprise the two exchanged these phone calls, or that in the midst of chaos and violence, Tamerlan went out of his way to make a phone call to Zubeidat. The mother and son were reportedly very close. But should that in itself make us more sympathetic about him? Think differently about who he really was?

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has confessed to the Boston Marathon bombings from his hospital bedside following what sounds like intense questioning every few hours from authorities. Apparently, he told the interrogators that Tamerlan (his dead brother) was the one who instigated most of it and that they acted alone, motivated by religion.

He was charged with the crime yesterday from his bedside and may face the death penalty. But what good will that do?

It's not that I don't think he deserves it. He does. He deserves to face the death penalty three times (one for every person he is accused of killing) and then once again for MIT police officer Sean Collier who was just doing his job when the Tsarnaev brothers allegedly shot him in cold blood. But if what Dzhokhar says is true, if Tamerlan was the driving force behind it all, then he got off pretty easy.

The Department of Justice has just announced that the suspected Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has been charged from his hospital bed. Tsarnaev will not be tried as an enemy combatant in a military tribunal. Instead, he is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and will be tried in a federal civilian court.

White House spokesman Jay Carney says Tsarnaev cannot be tried in a military tribunal because he is a U.S. citizen (he was sworn in on September 2012). "We will process this terrorist through our system of justice," just as they've tried and convicted other terrorists since September 11, 2001. An elite interrogation team will question Tsarnaev without reading him his Miranda rights.

While suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev awaits questioning in a Cambridge hospital, the focus is turning to the wife of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It's hard to believe, but Tamerlan was a husband and a father. His wife, 24-year-old Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, grew up as an average, all-American girl in Rhode Island.

How did she get involved with Tamerlan, and how much did she know? Investigators are trying to find out. Here's what we know about her so far.