Don't know how many of you heard about this already (I first found out about it two days after it happened), but it begs repeating.

At approximately 8:15 a.m. [Feb. 12, 2008], an eighth grade 15-year-old boy, identified as Lawrence Fobes King (“Larry”) was shot in the head by another student in a computer lab classroom.
It was reported that King ( Read more... )

FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping

Meanwhile, AP: Bush unveils $3.1 trillion spending plan

Argh, yuck and damn.
In that order.

NASA to beam Beatles song to North Star

From the article:

"The song, written by McCartney and John Lennon, may have a ticket to ride and will be flying at the speed of light. But it will take 431 years along a long and winding road to reach its final destination. That's because Polaris is 2.5 quadrillion miles away."

Frances Lewine, who covered the White House for The Associated Press during six presidential administrations and spent nearly three decades as a CNN editor and producer, died Saturday of an apparent stroke. She was 86 ( Read more... )

Huckabee: Amend Constitution to be in 'God's standards'

Thanks to my_window_seat for directing my attention to this "Holy SHIT!".

Earlier this week, four children were thrown off the Dauphin Island Bridge in Alabama by their father. At this time, two of their bodies have been found.

CNN's coverage of this wretchedly horrible event includes a video link halfway through the story that reads, I KID YOU NOT, 'Watch the Mother Grieve'.

My current level of disgust is almost ( Read more... )

( 2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz )

1. Feds OK drought deal letting Georgia keep more water

2. The Picture Of Conformity: In a Watched Society, More Security Comes With Tempered Actions

3. Slideshow: Steampunk, Past and Present

4. Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster

5. Members of a doomsday cult are refusing to leave their hideout in a cave in southern Russia in ( Read more... )

The following information comes from this entry, found on the LJ community stolensharpie.
If you care about your civil liberties - or even your right to have an alternative opinion, I encourage you to read it.

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This bill is ( Read more... )

Well thank Heavens someone did.