Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is lucky there’s a Democrat in the White House because by now Republicans probably would have declared him an enemy combatant and whisked him off to a secret prison someplace. If he died while being waterboarded … too bad. What’s another dead terrorist. Never mind that he’s an American citizen on American soil, entitled to … Continue reading Tsarnaev to be tried in US criminal court system
In a new and very welcome development in the fight to preserve women’s abortion rights, two Arkansas doctors have filed suit against the state. According to the ACLU chapter that filed the suit on their behalf, they are challenging a new law that restricts the availability of abortions after the first 12 weeks of pregnancy … Continue reading Arkansas doctors sue state over abortion law
Calling all space nuts. Or at least those who haven’t heard. There’s a poll in progress to name Pluto’s two most recently discovered moons, currently designated P4 and P5. Voting ends at 12 pm EST Monday, so if you haven’t voted yet, you can still have your say. William Shatner suggested one of the moons … Continue reading ‘Vulcan’ leads in poll to name new Pluto moons
I’ve recently noticed a new kind of spam getting through Akismet and into my comments. It doesn’t contain a lot of links, doesn’t come from email addresses or URLs containing commercial names, and isn’t full of nonsense strings of unrelated words. Nothing so obvious. Nor does it all appear to come from the same URL, … Continue reading New kind of spam on WordPress
The latest local reports say 12 people died and at least 54 were injured when a lone gunman opened fire in a crowded Aurora, Colorado, theater last night. The sellout crowd was attending the premier of the third Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises.” This was the news that greeted me when I got up … Continue reading 12 dead, 54 injured in Colorado theater shooting
I just watched the premier of NatGeo’s newest production, “The Unlikely Leopard.” Beautiful photography, as you’d expect. All the more stunning for featuring a leopard, possibly nature’s most beautiful big cat. The show basically follows a single leopard from shortly after birth to being an adult on his own. It does what it is intended … Continue reading ‘The Unlikely Leopard’
