Good luck, Goodluck: Nigeria had it's first credibly fair and transparent elections since the end of the military dictatorship in 1999. Naturally, this served as an excellent reason for widespread violence and rioting. All the same though, I feel fairly optimistic about Nigeria's chances. Granted they have enormous, sectarian problems to deal with. The North and South divide is not now nor never will be an easy one to bridge. However, I believe that this election should mark a turning point for them. Once democracy gets its first toehold, it can be hard to turn back.
College cafeterias get failing grades from the New York City health department. Which shouldn't be that surprising. What is surprising to me is that while colleges must post the grades given their cafeterias, nursing homes do not. I can't imagine that the food in nursing homes is of significantly higher quality. Perhaps New York fears its elderly will rise up in an unstoppable, gray tide and take to the streets?
Let's take a look at yet another possibility for 2012: John Huntsman? I don't know. He hasn't done anything completely irrational as far as I know. I was under the impression that in order to be a contender for the Republican nomination, you had to be certifiably weird and/or star on reality television. I see from the picture that he has a fondness for riding around in leather. Maybe that counts? Meh. Were I to even consider a Republican for President (which is about as likely as me purchasing an otter named David), I would probably have to go for unbelievable long shot: Gary Johnson. Besides his policies supporting an end to drug prohibition, gay civil unions and being fairly reasonable (for a Republican), on reproductive rights, I appreciate that he describes himself as "an avid adventurer". We haven't had an adventurer president since Teddy Roosevelt.
Talk about government transparency! The CIA has released its recipe for invisible ink! Can't wait til they finally let the world know the secret behind "Uncle Sam's Official Junior Spy-Catcher Decoder Ring"!
Sue Bait: Let's try to wrap our heads around the pretty simple facts of this case: A librarian decided that a book contained questionable material (in this case, the graphic novel "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"), and took it upon herself (obviously inspired by the heroes of the book), to keep it out of the hands of...well, everybody. She did this by permanently checking it out. When a patron put a reservation on the book in order to read it she researched who they were, decided that the book wasn't right for them and basically stole it. Granted the patron in question was an 11 year old girl. Maybe she shouldn't have read the book. But absolutely, that's not the librarians decision to make.
But always, we must protect the children. The precious, precious children. Naturally, I sell this stuff. It looks perfectly wretched and I would never consider drinking it. Because why? Because I'm capable of making my own decision not to. I'm quite certain that everyone else is capable of making their own decisions as well. It would be lovely if an advertisement or packaging could utterly brainwash someone into buying something. I just don't think this is the case.
Huh...I did just notice that my laptop is running a bit slow...
But I don't care. Even if the machines are going to kill us all, at least humanity has finally reached the apotheosis of art, culture and technology.
And that is all I have time for!
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