Here's a good opportunity to ponder the limits of freedom of speech, brought to us by the Internatonal Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Three media executives had their sentences reduced for inciting violence during the Rwanda Genocide.Personally, I don't think this is an exercise of speech when you're urging people to kill others. Or providing ( Read more... )

Man donates sperm for grandchild.

I imagine that this family is having some interesting conversations that most families don't have with their grandfather.

Iran's MPs signed a statement that cites our bombing of Japan and the invasions of Iraq and Iran as "terrorist actions ( Read more... )

To assist in staving off Global Warming, a few scientists are proposing the installation of 10,000-100,000 tubes into the ocean.

The intent will be to foster algal growth.

Interesting.

In other news, I saw "No End in Sight" last night at the Crest. Nothing new. But I hadn't seen all the footage before. Rumsfeld is hideous.

So, this week's Taser victim has opened up an interesting discussion.

So Andrew Meyer breaks into a Kerry Speech and grabs the microphone to blurt out his conspiracy theory.

So there is some footage of the "Taser Experience". Here's one version. Here's another version from another angleSo, there's a lot of talk about this. Is this a ( Read more... )

First, from The Onion, "School Shootings Help Prepare Students for Being Shot in Real World". Heh. I'm sure it's quite true. Of course PTSD may be involved, as well.

So the Justice Department is saying that Internet Providers should be able to charge for priority web traffic. What does this mean, exactly? I'm already paying $50 or more a ( Read more... )

Yes. Who is Dale Limberhand. Limber. Hand.

In just a few short moments, if you haven't already done so, you will ponder if that name is real or fake.

Why? Because the case of Idaho v. Limberhand established a precedent that masturbation in an enclosed bathroom stall was within one's right to privacy. There's a little more hereYes, Dale ( Read more... )

Just yesterday, in a city about an hour north of Sacramento, an overpass collapsed (new construction) on a Fedex truck. The driver was only minorly injured, thank goodness. A construction worker was seriously injured. As far as tragedies go, this was a very fortunate one. Because the next day, in a shining example of the "It could be worse" ( Read more... )

[written this morning, but I got so busy I forgot to post ( Read more... )

Interesting link: This will start rolling out pages sometime in 2008. The Encyclopedia of Life. An encyclopedia for every single living (known) organism on this planet. The mockups of it look really cool.

Interesting Debate: The Jesus Picture in the Courthouse. It's an interesting case, in that it really divides some folks. If the court rules ( Read more... )