Does anybody have any clever ideas about what to do about North Korea? I'm fresh out. I think it's pretty difficult to negotiate with a country that presses for international nuclear disarmament talks whilst building a new light water nuclear reactor.
Apparently, Madagascar had a failed coup attempt yesterday while I wasn't paying attention. It sort of seems like less a coup and more a military sulk to be honest. The officers claiming to be taking over the country spent the day in their barracks.
Rioting has spread in Haiti over the cholera epidemic. Evidently, they blame the Nepalese which is certainly a surprise twist in Haitis omnipresent tale of woe. Earthquakes, typhoons, unrest...These were all a given. But Nepal? Who'd have thought there would ever be a beef there.
Also, burning tires seem a popular barricade material. I might be missing something here but isn't the long term effectiveness of your fortification diminished if you set it on fire?
Turns out the suspicious contraption discovered in Namibia and destined for Berlin was just a test. And apparently, one the Americans put together. It's unclear as to whether or not any German security officials were actually aware of this. If not, it seems a little...dickish. It's not nice to send people fake bombs. It tends to alarm them.
This is the very, very last thing I will say about the new TSA security procedures. . If I keep obsessing over it, my head will explode. However, this is a very significant point from todays New York Times:
For passengers, one frustration is that the agency, citing security reasons, has declined to release specific guidelines about how the pat-downs are conducted or what agents are permitted to touch. Law-enforcement officials, on the other hand, conduct searches subject to state laws and long-established guidelines after extensive training on what is, and is not, allowed. They are also generally searching only for weapons in a stop-and-frisk encounter.
The space program is really expensive. And really awesome. Here's a neat article about a snowstorm in space, emanating from a comet that formed at the dawn of the universe.
Of course the Germans would invent this. I only wonder what took them so long.
Sobering statistic: The Mexican war on drugs has claimed 31,000 lives in the past four years. Not to belabor the obvious, but I haven't heard about anyone involved in the manufacture or sale of Corona or Dos Equis shooting anybody...Wonder if it might be because they're legal?
I have a soft spot in my heart for Tennessee. I think Nashville is wonderful (not least because of the Batman Building!), and my best friends wife hails from there. So it bothers me to see Islamophobic stupidity on this scale coming out of there:
So perhaps it should not have come as a surprise that three Rutherford County residents filed a lawsuit in September to block construction of the mosque. The plaintiffs believe that they “have been and will be irreparably harmed by the risk of terrorism generated by proselytising for Islam and inciting the practices of sharia law,” which, they claim, “advocates sexual abuse of children, beating and physical abuse of women, death edicts, honour killings, killing of homosexuals, outright lies to Kafirs (those who don’t submit to sharia law), Constitution-free zones, and total world dominion.” Of course, Murfreesboro has had a mosque for decades, and does not seem infested with “Constitution-free zones”; quite how moving to a bigger building in a different location intensifies the risk remains unclear.
What an irritating, yappy way to be rescued. I'm surprised the Japanese don't employ giant robots for this sort of thing.
Pretty interesting column here about free games. And why people feel compelled to pay for them.
This is exactly the sort of thing I should NOT know how to do. I decide lots of things via coin toss. Typically, they come into play when I'm deciding whether I want to have fun (the tail or "being an ass" side of the coin), or do something intelligent (the head or "let's not go to the bar tonight" side of the coin). Knowing how to manipulate it is going to lead to quite a few irresponsible decisions...
And unfortunately, I won't be able to blame outrageous fortune anymore. Sigh.
Granted, Sean Connery may be classier when it comes to celebrity criminality but still in terms of sheer weirdness, nobody beats America's own Randy Quaid!
USA! USA! USA!
And now, I'm off to be responsible and feed myself like a grown up person.
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