- Turkey detains 3 male teens from UK on their way to Syria
- Elton John calls for Dolce and Gabbana boycott over IVF comments
Bad News
3 days ago
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Happy Pi day!
A once in a century moment this morning: 3-14-15 at 9:53:26. Come to think of it, 9:53:26pm works also.
Friday, March 13, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- France increases its efforts in the fight against Boko Haram
- Uganda parliament backtracks on media purge
- U.S.-led coalition targets Islamic State in 11 air strikes: statement
- European Court Rules Turkey Cannot Make Sterilization A Requirement For Gender Reassignment
- Trans woman named head of D.C. gay police unit
Bad News
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Star Wars introduces its first LGBT character to canon
- TransUnion, Equifax and Experian Agree to Overhaul Credit Reporting Practices
- Georgia becomes the first state in the South to “ban the box” on state employment applications
- Judge OKs atheist's 'reason station' in city hall
- Oklahoma University shuts 'disgraceful' fraternity for racist video
- Ferguson city manager out after Justice Department report
- Iraqi soldiers, militiamen enter Islamic State-held Tikrit
- IS Syria-Iraq communication lines smashed: coalition
- China says IS fighters back from Syria caught in Xinjiang
- Denver officer fired after videotaped struggle with woman
- Mississippi deputy fired for remarks while playing Xbox
Bad News
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Monday, March 09, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Army eases ban on transgender soldiers
- Man trolls lawyer on Web, lawyer sues (guess who wins)
- Female Islamic State recruiter arrested at Barcelona airport
- Kurdish forces attack Islamic State west of Kirkuk
- Air strike on Islamic State-run refinery in Syria kills 30: monitor
- IS executes 20 opponents in northern Iraq: officials
- Gunmen kill more than 12 Islamic State militants in eastern Syria
- Slovenia allows same-sex couples to marry, adopt children
- The Eiffel Tower Is Now a Powerful Wind Energy Machine
- 9 foreigners unaccounted for after IS attack on oil field
- Nigeria's Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State: video text
- Four bombs in Nigeria's Maiduguri city kill at least 50
- Fear, violence, kidnapping: life for women under Boko Haram
- In Turkey, criticizing the president can land you in jail
- Supreme Court revives Notre Dame's Obamacare contraception objections
- Florida bans use of 'climate change' by state agency: report
- Foreigners seized by Islamic State in Libya: Austria
- Hungarians face new ban on shopping most Sundays and nights
Sunday, March 08, 2015
Public service announcement
Set your clocks ahead 1 hour--it's daylight savings time. This way, you have an extra hour in the evening to look at the mounds of snow.
Thursday, March 05, 2015
Recent news round-up, Part 2
Good News
- Obama announces new education effort to 'let girls learn'
- Chad president tells Boko Haram leader to surrender or face death
- All-women's college Wellesley to accept transgender women
- Facebook posts about job land US contractor in Emirates jail The Emirates is a dangerous place. They don't respect many standard human rights. Don't work there. Don't vacation there. Don't even change planes there.
- Boko Haram remote control bomb kills two Niger soldiers
- Islamic State torches oil field near Tikrit as militia advance
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- Major survey shows most Americans support same-sex marriage
- David Geffen Captures Naming Rights to Avery Fisher Hall With Donation I suspect I will continue to call it Avery Fisher Hall for the rest of my life.
- Court: Man burned by fajitas while praying can't sue eatery
- Unions say they'll sue Christie again over pension payments
Bad News
- New Kind of Annoying: Robocall Trojan Horse Hides Cruise Offer in Political Survey But it's good they were caught.
- New Jersey officially announces $225M Exxon Mobil settlement They should be paying much more. ADDED: New Jersey Governor Christie's office drove favorable Exxon settlement: NYT
- Yale students protest work requirement for aid recipients What ever happened to work-study?
- A murderer and rapist's views reflect those of many in India
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Sunday, March 01, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Final rule to grant same-sex couples access to FMLA
- Kurdish forces 'capture strategic IS Syria bastion'
- FCC votes to override state laws that block municipal broadband deployments
- Google's Blogger reverses porn policy after user backlash
- Adoption by same-sex parent recognized by Alabama appeals court
Bad News
- War crimes and genocide: IS systematically killing religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq, study finds
- South Carolina college comes out against homosexuality
- Kansas May Allow Concealed Carry Without Permits, Training Idiocy.
- Iran blocks website for reporting on reformist ex-president
- Russian opposition leader Nemtsov shot dead: official Russia is not a democracy.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Kerry picks foreign service officer to be State’s first special envoy for gay rights
- Phoenix Drops Charges Related To Sex Work Claim Against Transgender Woman
- Man Arrested Over Murder of Transgender Woman
- US-led strikes on IS after group seizes 220 Christians It's the airstrikes that are good, not the kidnappings.
- U.S. military trains African armies ahead of Boko Haram campaign
- 3 sentenced in racial beatings that led to black man's death
- NYC cabbie suspended after pulling pregnant rider from taxi
- Hong Kong woman jailed for six years for maid abuse
Bad News
Monday, February 23, 2015
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Chelsea suspend two more fans in Paris racism probe
- Boko Haram hit by Chadian assault in NE Nigeria: residents
- Islamic State hit with 15 air strikes by U.S.-led coalition: U.S. military
- Nigerian warplanes bomb Boko Haram forest training camps: military
- European jihadis unable to join Islamic State, locked at home
- NY: Court: State Law Trumps Local Limits on Sex Offender Homes
- Finland: President signs gender-neutral marriage law
Bad News
- Giuliani: Obama Had a White Mother, So I’m Not a Racist I don't know which is the bigger idiot: Giuliani or Donald Trump.
- Three UK schoolgirls 'travelling to Syria'
- Boko Haram fighters kill 21 people near Nigeria's Chibok
Friday, February 20, 2015
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Egypt strikes Libya jihadists after beheadings video
- UAE says renewed air strikes hit IS oil refineries
- Nigerian troops recapture two towns from Boko Haram
- Malawi bans child marriage, lifts minimum age to 18
- Judge rules Richland florist violated state Consumer Protection Act
- Kurdish forces repulse jihadist attack south of Arbil
- Niger says troops kill suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber
- U.S. to support Cameroon military in Boko Haram fight
Bad News
Monday, February 16, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- U.S. moving to resupply Jordan's military with munitions: officials
- Sisi says Egypt will avenge IS beheadings of 21 Egyptians in Libya
- Most scientists think they should be active in public debates
- Bahrain sends warplanes to Jordan to fight Islamic State
- U.S. says 11 more air strikes carried out against Islamic State
- 35 IS jihadists killed in clashes with Syria Kurds: monitor
- Islamic State beheads 21 Christians in Libya on film, signalling major expansion
- Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware
- Islamic State Sprouting Limbs Beyond Its Base
- China official wants to force couples to have second child
- Female suicide bomber kills 7 in Nigeria
- Bahrain confirms six-month sentence for opposition official: lawyer
- Crowds attack Ebola facility, health workers in Guinea
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Friday, February 13, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Majority of Alabama counties issuing marriage licenses to gay couples
- Government Will Change How it Rates Nursing Homes
- Judge orders civil contempt hearing for Arizona lawman Arpaio
- Court nixes faith-based birth control mandate challenge
- Turks boycott schools, protest to demand secular education
- Suspected local head of Boko Haram arrested in Niger: sources
- Liberals work to lure Elizabeth Warren into White House race
- Oregon's Kate Brown to be first openly bisexual governor in U.S. history
- Illinois: Official Refuses Order to Halt Union Fees
Bad News
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Monday, February 09, 2015
Sunday, February 08, 2015
Plat du jour--guest submission--thanks for the warning
Found by Joanne. She said someone called it "rolling probable cause."
Saturday, February 07, 2015
Friday, February 06, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- '109 Boko Haram fighters dead' after first attack on Niger
- U.S. measles outbreak prompts vaccine crackdown in New Mexico schools, University of California system to require measles shots
- Canada court rules doctors can help ill patients die
- ABC Revives ‘BattleBots’ As Summer Reality Series I really liked the old series.
- Feds can't indefinitely gag Yahoo about subpoena, judge rules
- US legal opinion upheld privacy protections of census data
- Nigerian military recovers weapons stolen by Boko Haram
- In unison, Muslim clerics lash out against Islamic State
- France sends advisers to Nigeria border to coordinate Boko Haram fight
- In a historic first, five women qualify for Army Ranger School
- U.S.-led strikes kill 30 Islamic State fighters in Syria: monitors
- Egyptian military kills 27 militants in the Sinai
- US economy creates 1 million jobs in 3 months
Bad News
Animal headline of the day
Rare monkey eaten by otters in accident at British zoo
The article also contains one of the most stupid statements I've seen in a long time:
The article also contains one of the most stupid statements I've seen in a long time:
The zoo's director of conservation Christoph Schwitzer said despite their best efforts, keepers are unable to prevent unforeseen accidents.
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Yesterday's news round-up
Good News
- Revenge-porn website operator convicted in San Diego
- Oregon strippers lobby for better work conditions
- Nigeria claims Gamboru, four towns recaptured from Boko Haram
- UN Security Council demands Islamic State hostages freed
- School suspends boy for alleged Hobbit Ring invisibility threats I would not want to be a child in school today, or to be the parent of one.
- Toddler shoots father, pregnant mother at New Mexico motel Another idiot with a gun. She should not be in charge of children.
Monday, February 02, 2015
From the Department of Irony
On Monday, Heastie met with a group of lawmakers known as the "reform caucus" because of their interest in government transparency and accountability. The meeting was closed to reporters and other members of the public, however,
From the Associated Press
Sunday, February 01, 2015
Friday, January 30, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Marriott withdraws awful Wi-Fi blocking proposal after taking heat from FCC
- New poll finds most Americans want government to fight climate change
- Democratic US Rep. Ryan says he now supports abortion rights So, it took him 9 years of actually listening to women to change his view. A slow learner.
- US unemployment benefit applications plunge to 15-year low
- Chad army retakes Nigerian town from Boko Haram
- U.S.-led air strikes hit Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq
- Wisconsin: Federal court dismisses fines for Capitol protester
Bad News
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Obama administration on track to surpass health care goal
- Florida woman in 'warning shot' case may be released from jail
- Kurds expand offensive after driving IS out of Syrian town
- Florida: Lifting Gay Marriage Ban Allows Lesbian Couple To Be Parents
- U.S. FCC warns against blocking personal Wi-Fi access
Bad News
Monday, January 26, 2015
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Friday, January 23, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Federal judge strikes down gay-marriage ban in Alabama
- Chicago City Council prohibits police profiling of trans* people
- Tom Wolf Names Transgender Woman Physician General
- Irish Health Minister: I am a gay man
- Missouri city stops citing drivers who warn others of speed traps
- Mosul strikes are start of new effort against Islamic State
- Colorado woman gets four years for plotting to aid Islamist militants
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Monday, January 19, 2015
Semi-random thoughts
- I saw the headline "Panthers' Newton practices 8 days after crash" and my first thought was it was about the Black Panthers and Huey Newton, not the Carolina Panthers and Cam Newton. I'm showing my age.
- I do not want ads appearing in my newsfeed on Facebook. In the past, I marked every single one I saw as spam, and for a while I wasn't seeing any. Then something changed and recently I've been getting them again--more than ever. Again I've been marking them as spam. Three times now Facebook has reported to me they have removed ads I've marked, because they failed to adhere to Facebook ad guidelines. Strangely, only one of the three was really objectionable--I think it was for some bogus weight loss product. There have been a number of similar ads, but Facebook seems to have done nothing about them. The other two were for Whole Foods and a political campaign that I actually supported. I wonder why they were removed.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Today's news roundup--not much today
Good News
- Nigeria's neighbours band together to fight Boko Haram
- Fox is bringing Gotham back for a second season I don't watch all that much television. However, I do like this show.
Friday, January 16, 2015
Today's news round-up
Good News
- High court to hear gay marriage cases in April
- Cafe's ban on kissing Austrian lesbians sparks protest It's good there's a protest.
- Chad army vehicles head for Cameroon to fight Boko Haram
- Russia gives green light for transgender drivers to stay on the road
- Boko Haram survivor told not to search for children, 'we killed them'
- Boko Haram’s use of girl suicide bombers intensifies amid terror campaign
- Islamic State kills 17 in Syria after hit-and-run attacks
- Russia says Mohammed cartoon publication illegal
- Denver Bakery Hit With Religious Discrimination Complaint For Refusing To Make Obscene, Anti-Gay Cake
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Arizona passes law requiring students to pass civics test Arizona has passed a lot of crazy laws in recent years, but this one I like. I'm constantly amazed how many people have no idea how our government works. No wonder so few people vote.
- Judge: Michigan must recognize 300-plus gay marriages
- New Laws Are Making Public Bathrooms Safer for Transgender People
- Justice Dept. unveils new guidelines for US news leak probes
- Islamic State group losing ground in symbolic Kobani battle
- Army opens grueling Ranger jobs to women
- Malian 'hero' of Paris attacks gets French nationality
- Nigerian troops 'repel Boko Haram attack'
- Governor of Michigan Vetoes Bill on Guns
Bad News
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Today's news round-up.
Good News
- Austria detains teenage girls who wanted to marry IS fighters It's good they were caught.
- Germany arrests suspected Islamic State militant after return from Syria
- Indiana couple arrested after video shows handgun in toddler's mouth These two should not be raising children.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Friday, January 09, 2015
Thursday, January 08, 2015
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Charlie Hebdo Attack: Magazine to publish next week
- Last two defendants plead guilty in string of Mississippi hate crimes
- Vermont governor re-elected after failing to win majority
- U.S. House fails to pass Republican bill diluting Dodd-Frank reforms
- Connecticut court rules against teen who didn't want chemo
Bad News
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Italy court recognizes child born to gay couple for first time
- U.S. court upholds NY state vaccination requirement for students
- Official's threat to keep name out of print backfires badly Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter. He really needs to learn something about the First Amendment. UPDATE: Official says he was wrong to ask that his name not be used
- Netflix says it wants to stream 'The Interview'
- Foie gras back on menu in California
Bad News
Tuesday, January 06, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Minnesotan who lived on yacht, collected aid, gets 21 months in prison
- Vermont school district that barred parent to pay $147,500
- France to deploy aircraft carrier to Gulf in IS fight: report
- Dozens of Islamist fighters killed as battle of Kobani rages on
- Judge extends order limiting Missouri police use of tear gas
- US gives Iraq army 250 mine-resistant armoured vehicles
- Federal Judge In Florida Says “Constitution Requires” Same-Sex Marriages Beginning Jan. 6
Bad News
Sunday, January 04, 2015
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Rapist 'to be euthanised in Belgian jail on January 11' Regulated assisted suicide should be legal everywhere.
Saturday, January 03, 2015
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Turkey gives go-ahead for first new church in century This is fine, but it's really just a baby step if Turkey wants to join the EU.
- Federal judge allows gay marriages to begin across Florida
- Islamic State kills 14 Libyan soldiers, official government says
- Idaho's governor appeals to Supreme Court to reinstate ban on gay marriage
- Gasoline-Tax Increase Finds Little Support
- At least 15 killed in 'Boko Haram' attack on Cameroon bus: sources
- Islamic State seeking bases inside Lebanon: Lebanon security chief
- Libya Islamists abduct 20 Egypt Christians: govt
Friday, January 02, 2015
Micro movie review
Selma A movie based on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1965 campaign for voting rights in Selma, Alabama. Powerful? Definitely. Accurate history? Uh, maybe not so much.
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Supreme Court Plans to Provide Briefs and Filings Electronically
- California leaders set for high-speed rail groundbreaking Tuesday
- Saudi IS cleric killed in northern Syria
- Bid in New York to extend legal rights to chimps fails, again
- Busted: Alleged Lizard Squad Hacker Arrested
- Publisher pulls atlas that omits Israel
- U.S. court approves Condé Nast $5.85 mln intern pay settlement
Bad News
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Micro movie review
Mr. Turner A long bio-pic of British painter J.M.W. Turner. It's much more of a biography of the man than of the painter. Unfortunately, he was a rather boring man.
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Recent news round-up
Good News
- U.S. court strikes down North Carolina ultrasound abortion law
- US moves to end ban on blood donations by gay men A step in the right direction.
- U.S. judge throws out Arizona sheriff's immigration suit against Obama
- Algerian army 'kills jihadist behind Herve Gourdel beheading'
- Sony broadly releases 'The Interview' in reversal of plans and Sony releases ‘The Interview’ online
- Islamic State extremists capture Jordanian pilot
- U.S. Representative Grimm says will not resign after pleading guilty to tax fraud
- For gay Syrians, jihadist threat adds new fear
- Grisly finds in Iraqi Yazidi village wrested from militants
- Women excised from public life, abused by IS
- Gambia arrests three men it accuses of homosexual acts
Micro movie review
The Imitation Game Bio-pic of WWII British codebreaker Alan Turing. Cumberbatch was excellent as Turing, but the plot had more holes than a colander.
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Satanic Temple puts up display at Michigan Capitol
- Measuring de Blasio’s First Year by a Broken Toe and a $360 Check
- Yazidis celebrate after Kurds break siege on Sinjar Mountains
- Coalition strikes hit IS north of Syria's Aleppo: monitor
- Another pre-emptive strike on Georgia’s ‘religious liberty’ bill
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Friday, December 19, 2014
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Protesters in contempt of court for anti-whaling campaign Nobody is above the law.
- Former Florida mayor sentenced to prison for secret consulting job
- Obama says would veto any weakening of consumer protections
- Bitcoin backer gets two years prison for illicit transfers
- Mozambique decriminalises abortion to stem maternal deaths
- Victory for plaintiff in China gay conversion case
- Ohio Muslim woman sues over jail church attendance She should sue. She will win.
- Supreme Court won't stop gay marriages in Florida
- California Man Arrested In Cold Case Murder Of Transgender Woman
Bad News
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Army Restores Full Benefits for Captains Being Forced Out
- Arizona: Sheriff Arpaio Will Disband Squad That Search for Illegal Immigrants Local law enforcement should stay out of immigration matters. It's a federal concern.
- Iraqi Kurds say Mount Sinjar siege broken
- EBay parts ways with controversial political group ALEC
- Instagram makes teens and celebrities angry by killing millions of spambots
- Cameroon army kills 116 Boko Haram militants, defence ministry says
- Court-appointed panel to monitor Los Angeles county jails
- New Jersey school to allow transgender student to use boys room
- Top Islamic militants killed; more US troops going to Iraq
Bad News
Good Uber News- Uber suspends operations in Portland for 3 months It's good to see them complying with the law. It's unusual.
Bad Uber News
- Uber's fight of California data-sharing rule highlights its bumpy road This is more normal for Uber--thinking it can decide if, and how much, it will comply with laws and regulations.
- Uber driver in Boston charged with kidnapping and rape
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Montana homeowner found guilty in slaying of German exchange student
- Judge Rejects Plea Deal for South Carolina Sheriff There should be term limits for positions like this.
- Ex-Captain at Rikers Is Found Guilty of Civil Rights Violation in Inmate’s Death
- U.S. top court bars Arizona from denying driver's licenses to immigrants
- U.S. charges two pharmacists with 25 murders in meningitis outbreak
Bad News
Micro movie review
The Theory of Everything: Bio-pic of British physicist Stephen Hawking and his ex-wife. Interesting, if uneven. Based on her memoir. I wonder how his memoir would differ.
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Today's news round-up
Good News
- For police reformers, California city shows a rough road But they did eventually make significant progress.
- Nigerian troops win back cities from extremists
- France says it has 'neutralised' 200 jihadists in Sahel
- Turkish police raid media close to cleric rival Gulen, detain 24
- Sweden says Russian military jet in near collision with passenger plane
- Attackers torch rights group's office in Chechen capital
- Islamic State influence spreads to African jihadists
- Congress fails to revise government records law
- Islamic State beheads four men for blasphemy in Syria: monitor
- No room at the inn? Atheists see holiday displays vandalized
- Islamic State group shoots down Iraqi helicopter
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Friday, December 12, 2014
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Motown's Temptations, Four Tops visit Oval Office I'll be seeing them when they come to NY in a couple weeks.
- Ruling Lets Work Email Be Used to Organize Unions
- NLRB issues rule to speed up union organizing
- AP Source: Justice won't ask Risen about source
- FBI probing death of black North Carolina teen hanged from swing
- Court lets Pennsylvania widow keep home sold over interest on $6.30 tax bill
- Alabama recalls vanity license plate with gay slur
- Islamic State target of 27 strikes by U.S. allies
Bad News
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
Today's news round-up
Good News
- MoveOn.org Looks to Nudge Elizabeth Warren Into 2016 Presidential Race I'm hoping we can elect another liberal as president. Hillary is really a centrist.
- Cooper Hewitt design museum reopens, revamped
- India clamps down on unregistered taxis after Uber rape claim
- Supreme Court rules no worker pay for security screening The problem is the wording of the regulation. Workers should be paid for all of the time they are required to be on the employers' premises.
- Islamic State in Syria beheads man for blasphemy Blasphemy should not be a crime.
Monday, December 08, 2014
Today's news round-up
Good News
- New York attorney general seeks to probe police killings of unarmed civilians
- Former Madoff executive gets 10 years in prison
- New Zealand appoints its first openly gay High Court judge Matthew Muir
- U.S. says allies to send about 1,500 troops to Iraq
- Facebook Search now lets you find specific posts, not just people I've been wanting this for a long, long time.
- U.S. condemns Gambia over disappearances, new anti-gay law
- D.C. bans gay conversion therapy of minors
- Miami-Dade County Bans Anti-Transgender Discrimination
Bad News
- Male military sex assault victims slow to complain
- Russian liberal TV channel forced to quit premises Russia is not a democracy.
Sunday, December 07, 2014
Semi-random thoughts
- I rarely read any article that has "shocking" in the headline.
- If I were a conspiracy theorist I'd say the Big Ten knew that the only way they'd get a team in the national college football playoff was if Ohio State won big in the Big Ten championship game, so Wisconsin was forced to throw it. Since I'm not a conspiracy theorist I have to admit Wisconsin got demolished.
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