Speaking of which, I see just this second that they had to switch to a Swiss domain this morning after hacking attacks threatened its network. This will be interesting to follow. Yes, very interesting indeed.
I have profoundly mixed feelings about Wikileaks. I believe in the free dissemination of information but really loath the way they go about it. That said, I certainly don't believe it's appropriate for governments to use underhanded cyber attacks to silence dissent. You can now reach wikileaks here.
Well, that's my good deed for the day, I think.
Huh...Some pretty weird news coming out of my local paper today:
First, it appears as though some crazed, gothic teenager is stalking Pittsburgh's car dealerships. Secondly, here is a man that criminally craves sloppy joes.
Not a great thing for the Baltimore game on Sunday: Roethlisberger's foot is broken.
More on the DADT Hearings here. Unfortunately, the heads of the various services are now saying that repeal of the law would prove disruptive. At the same time they all want it repealed. Just not now. But sometime. I would point to numbers in the Pentagon study showing that a majority of respondents believed that they had served with homosexuals and that it had not affected their units performance as evidence that the military is ready right now, but that's just me.
Does it bother anyone else that a report on the government violating domestic spying limits doesn't even really feel like news? If domestic spying is a "dog bites man" story, is Wikileaks a "man bites dog"?
Reuters has an interesting piece up about the proposals being made by the bipartisan deficit commission. It's good reading if you're like me and not particularly savvy about economics on a technical scale. One interesting point: The writer disagrees with raising the retirement age to 69...
The commission stumbles badly, though, in tackling Social Security. It would hike the minimum retirement age to 69 by 2075, figuring that advances in life expectancy will make that feasible. While there are other proposed benefit “bump ups” for those who live a long time or are disabled, the new retirement age looks more like a longevity penalty for people who can’t even vote now.
Of course it's a bad idea to raise the retirement age...65 years from now! It makes no sense to kick the issue down the road when social security is looking down the barrel of the imminent retirement of the Baby Boom Generation! The issue needs to be resolved yesterday. Though I would hope that infants today can expect to live a bit longer than their grandparents, there's no reason to expect them to work years longer for a retirement fund that will be utterly depleted.
Here is a story about mice snot. Reading it, I gather that someone is tasked with the job of sucking the snot out of mouse noses. Something you might want to consider when you're thinking about pursuing a graduate degree in...SCIENCE!
Trouble in Paradise: Celebration, the model town built by the benevolent corporate overlords at Disney, has seen it's second violent death in two weeks. Neither of the victims appear to be talking animals.
Inexplicably, the Central African Republic has formally rehabilitated self-crowned Emperor Bokassa I who ruled the country with an iron fist until 1979. He died in 1996, frankly not soon enough. But now his peccadilloes have all been washed clean, never mind the murders, the tortures, the cutting off of ears, the widespread but unproven accusations of cannibalism and the minor matter of spending the countries entire GDP on his coronation.
But hey, he's good now.
If you're so compelled, here's an essay by Montaigne on cannibalism. I was wondering when I'd have a reason to use that thing...
On a sad note, today marks the 26th anniversary of the industrial tragedy at Bhopal. Thousands of Indians were killed instantly after poisonous gas was released from a plant negligently run by Union Carbide.
Interesting: I noted on Wednesday that a man could face 10 years in prison for tinkering with peoples Xboxes out of his garage. The prosecution has opted to drop the case after it was made evident that their key witness seemed to suspiciously remember an awful lot more illegal stuff while on the stand then he did in his initial police report.
Sometimes DIY can be taken just a step too far...
Finally...
Russia takes unique squirrel based steps to counter its problems with alcoholism.
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