It’s like deja vu all over again. A 7.4 “aftershock” earthquake strikes near the same coastal area of Japan that spawned last month’s 9.1 destructor. Tsunami warnings and evacuations follow. The Fukushima nuclear disaster plant so far appears unscathed.
Libya’s rebels—surprise, surprise—aren’t much of a fighting force. They’re mostly dissidents, not hardened guerrillas, and may not have the might to push the war to Moammar Qaddafi’s doorstep. At least, that is, the rebels who aren’t mistakenly bombed by NATO.
The American government shambles ever closer to shutdown. Late-night budget talks produce more bickering, over unrelated policy issues like reproductive rights and environmental protections. And guess who might not get paid when the wheels stop: THE TROOPS—whom Republicans usually say we’re supposed to love unconditionally, with one hand over our hearts (and the other over our mouths).
Nauseating news about a gunman who opened fire at a primary school in Brazil, in a shooting officials are calling “a massacre, a true massacre.”
Armenia’s internet comes from one lone cable hooked up to neighboring Georgia. A 75-year-old woman digging for copper scraps accidentally severed it with her spade.
In Wisconsin, ground zero for organized labor, a Supreme Court judge loyal to the state’s union-busting governor (and likely his union-busting law) has fallen to a progressive challenger. A recount is expected.
Cops in Colorado pepper-sprayed an irate 8-year-old in February, and now the boy and his family are taking to the airwaves to tell his story. Although the boy says “I probably deserved it.”
Rail travel really is more elegant. First, there was the whole hole-in-plane thing over the weekend. Now another sleepy air traffic controller is about to be shit-canned, the FAA revealed yesterday.
Mexican gangs looking to launder billions of dollars last decade found a very willing partner in a very big American bank that’s since been snapped up by Wells Fargo. Tens of millions in fines were paid, but no one was ever hauled into court.
The end of Glenn Beck’s nightly show on Fox was announced. Who might replace him? Maybe this guy? Or maybe, why not, this guy, since he’s apparently leaving the vomitously insipid Today Show?
All this makes me miss the golden age of television.
I like Ron Paul right where he. In Congress. That dude will never ever ever ever make it as President. He’s a batshit semi-Libertarian who’s got an Evangelical Christian’s attitude towards women’s reproductive health and is also an evolution-denyer.
But at least he’s not corrupt or especially hypocritical. (other than railing against earmarks and then using earmarks, but what do you expect? He’s a politician)
I hit my refresh button like a crack head while the Wisconsin Supreme Court results came in. Maybe the recount is a good thing since it will keep the story in the news. Over 1.4 million votes cast and it came down to 204 people, really shows where we are at as a country.
Why can’t a 75-year-old woman digging for copper scraps ever accidentally destroy Microsoft? Or, at the very least, Bing?
Good morning, newstownies! Armenian internet has an upside! If you’re besieged by a sudden citizen insurrection using social networking sites to organize, you can send the “Granny with a Spade” unit to sever their ties to Twitter! Spade wielding Granny is the cutting edge in population uprising control tactics.
Why do I always think Ron Paul is Paul Frank, then smile ?
I see that this went right over your heads: http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features…
These people with two first names confuse me!
Good article, Rosy – thanks!
I only read Vanity Fair when they are handed out to me and have perfume samples. I love the articles.
One atheist here for Ron Paul, woo!
@Spindles: How do you feel about Ron Paul’s opposition to Roe V Wade?
Mixed mr. ‘unregistered’. But Paul’s voting record backs up his sincerity. He is not full of double speak and lies like just about every politician out there. He’s against the phony wars more than just about all the Dems, and he has led the charge on ending the corrupt, private, tapeworm otherwise know as the Federal Reserve. We can argue over the wedge issues later, but if the Fed is not stopped now you can forget about your reproductive freedoms.
I think the women on this board will be interested to hear that their right to control their own bodies is a “wedge issue,” Spindles.