- LA PD union tries to get newspaper editorialist fired for having the audacity to point out that the public pension fund for the police is unsustainable.
- The states now have a legal right to regulate what is medically necessary for Medicaid patients to receive. A pretty common sense ruling when you consider the fact that Medicaid is an insurance program.
- This could turn out to be a great new computing appliance. It's got a 1.2Ghz Arm9 CPU, 512MB of RAM and a full network stack, plus it takes SD cards. For $5,000 you could buy 50 of them, and the company that makes them is saying that it expects prices could go as low as $50/device for volume purchases. Great news for businesses and hobbyists that could benefit from distributed computing like scientific researchers and cash-strapped movie and game makers.
- This woman has got to be the most unlucky cheating girlfriend/wife out there. She thinks she's having one man's child, and then ends up with a medical condition which causes her to have twins, with each child born to a different father. I bet Maury and Jerry Springer are kicking themselves for not discovering her before the media did. Imagine the story: "guess what, we ran a paternity test on you guys and BOTH OF YOU are the 'father.'"
- When they can least afford it, a number of women are splurging on shopping trips in order to cheer themselves up. Homer Simpson expressed the same sentiment when he said, "beer the cause of and solution to, all of life's problems."
- Funniest stupid, weird criminal of the day...
- A former Roman Catholic archbishop claims that he didn't know it was illegal to have sex with kids. I can't say "you can't make this stuff up" because that's what this guy is doing unless he is the dumbest son of a bitch to enter the clergy in a long time.
The difference between "progress" and a hampster wheel is the latter at least burns calories
I suppose it is possible for a Roman Catholic Arch Bishop to be very isolated from reality. But I would have expected him to be very well informed on church teachings and Biblical prohibitions against it.
The fact that there are "danger Will Robinson, danger!!!" markings all over it in scripture and the Catholic catechism should have been his first clue to look for a state statute.