Muslim Madness, Smirk, Rmoney, Elections 2012, Voter Suppression, Vote Machinations, Obstructionism, Economy, Scott Van Duzer

Muslim Madness

• Top Ten Likely Consequences of Muslim anti-US Embassy Riots
• Why is the Arab world so easily offended?
• Anti-islamic film search leads to coptic Christian in California--"Nakoula Basseley Nakoula claims role in the Innocence of Muslims saying it was intended as a provocative statement."
• Sydney: An open letter to the Islam Protesters
• Google rejects White House request to pull Mohammad film clip
• In Two Presidential Elections, An Anti-Muslim Film Has Emerged Exactly 7 Weeks Before the Polls Open
• Maddow: Explaining free speech more necessary than merely defending it

Smirk

• When You Learn They're Not Ready
• New York Times Wipes Story Detailing Mitt Romney's Attack On Obama
• For Romney campaign, a problem with the blame-stream media

Rmoney

• Mitt Romney's epic incompetence--"I've been following politics for many years; I've written a book on presidential campaigns and I've delved quite a bit into the minutiae of the 2012 campaign. And I'm increasingly convinced that Mitt Romney is the worst national politician I've ever seen"
• Mitt Romney's confession--"For several weeks, we've been asking Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to explain how he can cut taxes, as promised, without adding to the nation’s debt, as also promised. Now he's effectively let the cat out of the bag: He can't."
• Scarborough: The problem with Mitt
• Republicans have bad case of buyer's remorse
• Time To Panic: Religious conservatives are worrying out loud about Mitt Romney.

Elections 2012

• 'Social Voting' Really Does Rock the Vote
• Samuel's prez ad: Wake the f@#k up!
• Money, Power, Ruses, and the Right to Vote

Voter Suppression

• Jim Cramer: Voter ID Law Will Disenfranchise My Dad-- Pennsylvania officials rush to recitfy the situation in 7 hours. Guess that's what happens when someone is rich and/or popular; what happens if you're poor and a 'nobody'?
• Ohio Secretary Of State Backs Down, Allows Local Officials To Set Early Voting Hours
• Election Officials Falsely Tell New Hampshire Voters They Need ID To Vote
• Minnesota Republicans Panicking as More County Clerks Compare Notes on Horrific Costs and Hassles of Photo ID Amendment
• Many Texans Bereaved Over 'Dead' Voter Purge
• Minority Voters to be Intimidated by Polling Place Vigilantes, Report Warns
• Web pioneer providing voter database for free

Vote Machinations

• Kansas State Board Considers Removing Obama From Ballot
• Manhattan man drops ballot challenge to Obama after 'abusive' reaction
• Maryland Democrat Wendy Rosen Drops Congress Bid Over Vote Fraud Allegations

Obstructionism

• Three's A Trend: Polls Show Voters Believe GOP Intentionally Stalling Economic Recovery
• Lawmakers get back to doing nothing--"We're up to zero votes on Obama’s jobs bills and more than 30 votes to repeal Obamacare."
• Republicans Obstruct Veteran Jobs Corps Act NYT
• Krugman: Obstruct and Exploit--"A cynical Republican strategy: block all efforts to strengthen the economy, then exploit the economy’s weakness." NYT
• How the Republicans' scorched-earth anti-Obama strategy has backfired--"By being 'the party of no' to Obama on jobs, stimulus, healthcare and all, the GOP has left Romney with no positive offer to voters."
• No Reveling for Democrats, Despite Achievements--"I am amused with their comments about obstructionism," Mr. McConnell said in an interview. "I wish we had been able to obstruct more." NYT
• On November 6th, Send Republican Obstructionists Home for Good

Economy

• Don't Tell Anyone, but the Stimulus Worked NYT
• How A Bunch Of Republicans Accidentally Voted To End Welfare-To-Work Requirements
• The Death - and Life - of Small Downtown America

Scott Van Duzer

• Obama gets a bear hug from Fla. pizza shop owner
• Scott Van Duzer's Big Apple Pizza Gets Negative Yelp Reviews After Owner Bear-Hugs Obama
• The Boycott Against Obama's Bear-Hugging Buddy Is Failing Miserably

Relationships, Sex Studies, Sex Toys, Men's Health, Junk, Masturbation, Pr0n

Relationships

• Husband spent £50,000 gameshow winnings in just four months so he wouldn't have to share it with his estranged wife
• In defense of single people--"They're pitied. They're judged. But it's time to give them more respect." Salon
• Overly Attached Girlfriend--Something about this meme I just find so hilarious.

Sex Studies

• Scientist Says NASA Must Study Space Sex
• Sex, Sleep and the Law: When Nocturnal Genitals Pose a Moral Dilemma
• "What happens in the brain during an orgasm?"

Sex Toys

• Sex toys and porn: Can they both change to meet women's needs?
• Grand theft porno: £11k worth of sex toys stolen
• Blast from the Past: Russian bomb squad called in to defuse sex toy

Men's Health

• Circumcision pluses outweigh risks: Pediatricians--Canadians do not agree.
• Every man's favorite sex study--"The headlines were provocative: Semen cures depression! But the study is 10 years old, and far from conclusive." Salon
• Male Birth Control Pill Could Be Ready for Testing in a Year

Junk

• Woman Denies Killing Man With Penis Growth Jab
• The Penises of the Icelandic Handball Team
• At Least We Know Which Side Batman Dresses On
• The David Shorts Store--Michaelangelo's David, that is.
• Dilbert: "This is nuts"

Masturbation

• The court ruled in her favor and now she can masturbate at work
• Satire: Azeri Teenagers Jailed for Masturbation Using Kim Kardashian Photo
• Jehovah Witnesses anti-masturbation video mash-up--Enjoy it before the copyright cops have it taken down.

Pr0n

• U.K. seriously considering "opt-in" policy for online porn
• Pornography is just 'advertising' for prostitution, claims Louis Theroux
• A generation is growing up skewed by internet pornography, court hears, as 12-year-old who raped a schoolgirl is spared jail
• Three Reasons Possession Of Child Porn Must Be Re-Legalized In The Coming Decade--Here's a follow-up.
• Judge sides with porn P2P plaintiff, setting up legal showdown
• German 'porn pirates' to be named--"A German law firm that has been pursuing net pirates says it is going to begin naming some of those accused."
• xkcd: Porn Folder

Marriage Equality, International, Politics, Discrimination, LGBT

Marriage Equality

• 'I Didn't Know You Had Families' Mitt Romney Told Group Of Gay Parents
• After Vote for Gay Marriage, Senator Roy McDonald Faces G.O.P. Primary Fight NYT
• Meet the Mystery Donor Backing Gary Bauer's Anti-Gay-Marriage Super-PAC
• Ravens Linebacker Who Supports Same-Sex Marriage Says 'Our Team Doesn't Believe in Discrimination'
• "They Won’t Magically Turn You Into A Lustful Cockmonster"--"Chris Kluwe explains gay marriage to the politician who is offended by an NFL player supporting it."
• Australia: 'Smoking healthier than gay marriage'--"The head of the Australian Christian Lobby Jim Wallace says smoking is healthier than the lifestyle that would be promoted by same-sex marriage." Smoking, eh?
• Gay man gets 'maternity' leave in Brazil--"Brazil's social security agency has, for the first time, given a four-month "maternity" leave to a gay man so that he can care for his adopted child."

International

• Witch-hunt in Iraq--"Iraqi law enforcement agencies are involved in the systematic and deadly persecution of gay men and women there, a BBC investigation has revealed."
• China: Booklet tells parents to 'prevent' homosexuality
• Putrajaya lists homosexual 'symptoms' to prevent spread among schoolchildren
• Uganda charges British producer David Cecil over gay play
• Chile's army chief apologizes for anti-gay memo
• Evangelical Christian doctor in Australia banned from practicing as GP for prescribing chemical castration to "cure" teenager of being gay
• Halifax man pepper-sprays teen over gay slurs

Politics

• Cardinal Dolan's Speech Changes Irk Gay Catholics
• Barney Frank Won't Walk Back 'Very Harsh' Language On Gay Republicans
• New York GOP State Senate Candidate Attacks Primary Opponent For Being Gay Friendly
• Jerome Corsi, Tea Party Activist, Reports Obama Is Gay And Familiar With Chicago's Bathhouse Scene
• Don't Ask Don't Tell Study Shows No Negative Effects On Military One Year After Repeal

Discrimination

• A discrimination lawsuit. The Catholic Church and a gay, married couple--This is "a case about two men who wanted to buy a church property to build an events center."
• School Cancels Cosmetology to Stop Gay Students From Joining
• Couple settles discrimination lawsuit with Vermont resort--Vermont is one of a number of states that disallows discrimation for places of public accommodation.

LGBT

• Australia PM backs Sydney's gay rugby bid--"Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has endorsed a bid to bring the global gay rugby championships to Sydney in 2014, offering 'strong' support despite her opposition to same-sex marriage."
• A Gay, Male Vampire Slayer Joins "Buffy Season 9"
• XBOX Live: Progress

Climate Change, Environment, Ecology

Climate Change

• NASA Explains how We Caused the Hottest Decade and are generally screwing ourselves over
• New Zealand: Court throws out climate change deniers' lawsuit again scientists
• Climate change breaks the ice: 3-man sailboat makes record voyage--"In an account of their voyage posted Monday, the crew of the 31-foot Belzebub II... described how they crossed through the M’Clure Strait in northern Canada, a decreasingly ice-packed route through the famed Northwest Passage."
• "Sunshade" to fight climate change costed at $5 bln a year
• Why cut down on carbon emissions when you can curb climate change by simply blotting out the sun?

Environment

• In Bike-Friendly Copenhagen, Highways For Cyclists
• Deepwater Horizon: BP accused of gross negligence
• Singapore Engulfed In Smoky Haze From Indonesian Forest Fires
• Australia acts to stop super-trawler
• Germany's Offshore Fiasco: North Sea Wind Offensive Plagued by Problems

Ecology

• Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits--Ivory is fetching up to $1,000 a pound, and "hundreds of millions of people in China are now wealthy enough to buy jewelry, combs and trinkets made of ivory." NYT
• Endangered tiger cubs and pangolins seized by Vietnam police
• Javan rhino clings to survival in last forest stronghold
• Caribbean coral reefs face collapse--"Caribbean coral reefs – which make up one of the world's most colourful, vivid and productive ecosystems – are on the verge of collapse, with less than 10% of the reef area showing live coral cover."
• Japanese River Otter Declared Extinct

National Video Games Day, Gaming, End Game, Electronic Arts, Always Online, Tetris, Old School, Trivial Pursuit, "You're Winner!"

National Video Games Day

• National Video Games Day Celebrated Today, Sept. 12
• The surprising, stealth rebirth of the American arcade
• 5 Reasons It's Still Not Cool to Admit You're a Gamer
• Casual video gaming can reduce depression and anxiety, study shows
• Study: Gamers Self-Conscious To "Extreme" Body-Types
• Real world violence blamed for increase in video game violence
• GameStation: "We own your soul"

Gaming

• Five Things You Never Knew About Pac-Man
• If Super Mario Bros. Was Made in 2010
• Orlando Philharmonic to perform in 'Legend of Zelda' concert
• 'The Legend of Zelda,' 'Mega Man' and 'Metroid' as Japanese Woodblock Prints
• Blindsidegame.com--Designed for the visually-impaired.

End Game

• Inside the Destruction of Curt Schilling's 38 Studios
• Can 'FarmVille 2' save struggling online games company Zynga?
• Australia Officially Stops Censoring Video Games--It started three years ago.

Electronic Arts

• Electronic Arts tried to buy Valve for $1 billion--"Newell said that Valve would sooner “'disintegrate' than sell out to a major publisher."
• Stock Ticker: Why EA's Market Valuation Has Crashed
• EA Forum Bans Can Lock You Out Of Games--They claimed it was a 'mistake'.

Always Online

• SimCity dev Maxis insists always-on internet requirement is "worth it"
• Hey Blizzard and EA, Single Players are Grabbing Their Pitchforks and Coming For You
• Ubisoft backtracks on PC DRM, citing customer feedback

Tetris

• Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters--A documentary about the search for the world's greatest Tetris player.
• Tetris Shown to Lessen PTSD and Flashbacks
• The Tetris Effect
• Tetristotle
• More than you could possibly want to know about Tetris

Old School

• Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete
• Playing at the World Is a Must Read for Gaming Geeks
• Dungeons & Dragons Remake Uses Players' Input--Things aren't looking too good. NYT

Trivial Pursuit

• N.S. man who claimed to invent Trivial Pursuit ordered to pay legal costs--Guess he ain't so smart.
• Why Do People Suck at Trivial Pursuit?
• Best Trivial Pursuit question ever?

"You're Winner!"

• 'Halo' Player Wins $10,000 Scholarship to Study Game Psych
• Man 'beats' Bejeweled 2 after playing for 3 years
• Xbox gamer wins $1 million for perfect score
• If Games Had a Super-Easy Mode
• "Congratulations!"

9/11, Surveillance, Liberty at Risk, War on Terror, Torture, Incarceration, Bin Laden, Domestic, Drones, Military Industrial Complex

9/11

• The Deafness Before the Storm--" The Bush administration was told, as early as May 2001, about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda." NYT
• Did the U.S. Overreact to the 9/11 Attacks?
• Have you heard of 9/11?--"In the West we take it for granted that everybody knows about the events of September 11th. But is this really the case, especially in some of the places that have been most affected by its consequences?"
• 9/11 cancer victims to have treatment funded--The kind which Paul Ryan had voted against multiple times.
• Blast from the Past: The 9/11 Report: A graphic adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón.

Surveillance

• House to Vote on FISA Amendments Act Wednesday
• White House Preparing Executive Order As A Stand-In For CISPA
• NSA Whistleblower Details How The NSA Has Spied On US Citizens Since 9/11
• Court ruling that NSA spying violated 4th Amendment remains secret--"EFF sues US to uncover details of court decision on phone and e-mail spying."
• FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project

Liberty at Risk

• Due process under duress: Detaining citizens under NDAA
• Greenwald: Obama campaign brags about its whistleblower persecutions--"Excuse me if I don't join in Democrats' sycophantic cheerleading for an Obama presidency that has shredded laws and liberties."
• Police seizure of text messages violated 4th Amendment, judge rules

War on Terror

• Why was a Navy adviser stripped of her career?
• Canada closes embassy in Iran, expels Iranian diplomats
• Marines punish nine for urinating on Taliban corpses; punishment due soon in Quran burning
• Taliban Ready to Negotiate Ceasefire; Willing to Severe Al-Qaeda ties
• Facebook Terrorism? Ex-Marine arrested, 9-11 conspiracy posts ruled 'terrorist in nature'--And then it gets weird.
• The sham "terrorism expert" industry Salon
• What terrorist threat?

Torture

• Greenwald: Obama's justice department grants final immunity to Bush's CIA torturers--"By closing two cases of detainees tortured to death (NYT), Obama has put the US beyond any accountability under the rule of law."
• Torture Without Accountability--"Why hasn't the Obama administration tried to prosecute any Bush-era torture crimes?"
• Torture now legal in the US, just another policy issue being voted on

Incarceration

• 9/11 hearings: Hear no evil
• Sami al-Haj: 'I lived inside Guantánamo as a journalist'--"Al-Jazeera's Sami al-Haj, the only journalist to have been detained in Guantánamo, talks about media coverage of the issue and how his life has changed."
• Human rights are meaningless words in United States: Mir-Qolikhan--"Iranian national Shahrzad Mir-Qolikhan has been released after five years in US detention.... [She] talks about what she has gone through during her incarceration in US jails."

Bin Laden

• CIA balked at chance to kill bin Laden in '99, Polish ex-spy says
• Save the Children foreign staff ordered out of Pakistan--"[T]he move is thought be fall-out from the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden." The doctor speaks out.
• Panetta angry at ex-SEAL's bin Laden book--It apparently 'contradicts official account.'
• Greenwald: Democrats parade Osama bin Laden's corpse as their proudest achievement
• Ohioans confused about bin Laden's death--"According to a PPP poll of likely Ohio voters, 15 percent of Republicans in Ohio think Romney is 'more responsible' for bin Laden's death than Obama, while 47 percent of Republicans are 'not sure' whether Obama or Romney deserves more of the credit." Ohio is totally bizzaro. Salon

Domestic

• Why the Reaction Is Different When the Terrorist Is White
• Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others
• The benefits of hindsight: The need for more monitoring of domestic terrorism
• Terror From the Right: Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City
• NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases--"In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department's secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged...."

Drones

• Drone "blowback" is real--"A new analysis finds five ways drone strikes in Yemen are hurting American interests." Salon
• Hidden History: America's Secret Drone War in Africa
• Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes--Drone attacks in Pakistan mapped
• Suspected U.S. drone strike kills civilians in Yemen, officials say
• Drone Hijacking? That’s Just the Start of GPS Troubles

Military Industrial Complex

• Science Teaching vs. Aircraft Carriers--"What's more dangerous: a nation full of science illiterates or a nation with one less aircraft carrier? Former New York City schools chancellor Harold Levy on the insanity of our budget priorities."
• U.S. Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market--"A worldwide economic decline had suppressed arms sales over recent years. But increasing tensions with Iran drove a set of Persian Gulf nations — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — to purchase American weapons at record levels." NYT
• Blackwater to pay fine to settle arms charges

Educamation, Studies, School State, Race and Racism, Rearing, Birds and the Bees, Broken Home

Educamation

• Starving the Future--"We will never be able to compete internationally as long as we treat education like a non-necessity." NYT
• What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success--"The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence."
• Everything You've Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong
• If You Win a Charter School Lottery, You're Happy. But What About the Losers?
• Student who revealed Troy High election-rigging seeks post--"The Troy High School senior who was suspended from school and stripped of his student-government post after he broke into a school database to reveal that a teacher altered election results is seeking to undo some of the discipline imposed on him." So the whistleblower gets punished while cheater teacher goes scot-free?

Studies

• U.S. Should Adopt Higher Standards for Science Education
• Effective Teaching is a Long Con
• Why Online Education Won't Replace College

School State

• Feds: Mississippi county runs 'school-to-prison pipeline'
• Tracking School Children With RFID Tags? It’s All About the Benjamins
• Should Kids Go to Jail for Skipping School?

Race and Racism

• Undisciplined--"The Obama administration undermines classroom order in pursuit of phantom racism."
• Do Urban Schools Blame Failure on Black Culture?
• UK: More than 87,000 racist incidents recorded in schools
• High court case looks at affirmative action at universities
• Blast from the Past: Rich, Black, Flunking --"Cal Professor John Ogbu thinks he knows why rich black kids are failing in school. Nobody wants to hear it."

Rearing

• Raising Successful Children--"So if children are able to live with mistakes and even failing, why does it drive us crazy? So many parents have said to me, 'I can't stand to see my child unhappy.' If you can't stand to see your child unhappy, you are in the wrong business." Or as Thomas Wayne asked his son: "Why do we fall?" NYT
• If You Spank, Don’t Console--"Study shows that the inconsistent message of corporal punishment along with otherwise positive parenting predicts higher depression rate in kids."
• How to Teach a Child to Argue--"Why would any sane parent teach his kids to talk back? Because, this father found, it actually increased family harmony."
• Jimmy Kimmel Lie Detective #1
• Blast from the Past: Mischel’s Marshmallows--"How are your New Year's resolutions holding out? This might at least help you feel better about them."

Birds and the Bees

• Sex? Not my kid!--"A new book explores parental delusions about their teens' sexuality." Salon
• Answering kids' sex questions Salon
• Australia: How to teach sex ed to kids--"There's no escaping the parental responsibility in helping our kids develop their sexual values."

Broken Home

• Raising the Ritalin Generation--"Once you start looking for a problem, someone’s going to find one, and attention deficit has become the go-to diagnosis for energetic children." NYT
• Texas judge gets a warning over beating video--" Judge William Adams has been on paid leave since November, when daughter Hillary Adams posted her secret recording of the lashing...."
• Girl accuses father of 'waterboarding'--What's she complaining about? The CIA says not torture! Maybe we can get Hannity's take on it.
• Court picks name for child in parental disagreement
• Italian parents turn to law to evict adult son

The Big Dog, Class War, Red State of Mind, The Lyin' Ryan, Truthiness, Voter Suppression, Journalism, Politics, Military, Local Government

The Big Dog

• What Bill Clinton Wrote vs. What Bill Clinton Said
• Jon Stewart Praises Bill Clinton's 'Amazing' DNC Math
• Obama: Clinton could be 'secretary of explaining stuff'

Class War

• Politics and Plutocrats: A Parade of Inequality
• Income Inequality: Powers That Be Won't Take It Up, Occupy Can't Take It to the Bank, and It's Still Very Real
• Bernie Sanders: Billionaires & corporations now buying elections, this should frighten every American
• Could You Raise Your Kids on Less Than $15,000 a Year? Millions of Parents Are Forced to Learn How
• Exiling the Poor--"Affluent suburban communities are refusing to build state-mandated affordable housing, leaving the inner-city poor with few options."

Red State of Mind

• Six reasons Texas pols are dangerous--"From rewriting history textbooks, to denying minorities the right to vote, Texas politicians have become a menace." Salon
• Why Do So Many Southerners Think They're the Only Real Americans?
• Liberal professor sends video of self being liberal to right-wing Campus Reform group, demands his $100 bounty for turning himself in

The Lyin' Ryan

• Paul Ryan won't back down on statements branded as false
• Since When Did Paul Ryan Become a Liar?
• Paul Ryan Has Not Run Sub-3:00 Marathon

Truthiness

• Is the Right-Wing Psyche Allergic to Reality? A New Study Shows Conservatives Ignore Facts More Than Liberals
• Romney Suggests Obama Has Plans To Remove God From Currency
• Republicans, the Post-Truth Party
• New Labor--War is peace. Freedom is Slavery. Labor Day is for Employers.
• Disillusioned Obama Supporter In Romney Ad Is Actually GOP Staffer

Voter Suppression

• In South Carolina, Shockingly Candid Talk About Voter Discrimination--"The state's chief election official -- a bureaucrat, not a politician -- patiently and professionally proves how the new law could be used to not only keep residents from voting but systematically discard their votes."
• Judge orders Ohio secretary of state to show up personally to explain why he's ignoring court order--"Husted... issued a directive telling county election boards not to arrange early-voting hours on those three days until after the appeal court's decision. In other words, he flipped off district court Judge Peter C. Economus."
• GOP Targets African-American Women in Voter Suppression Efforts
• 'Register to vote' Google searches double after Obama speech
• It’s Never Been Easier To Register, Which Is Why Republicans Have To Make It Harder To Vote--Now more than ever (NYT).

Journalism

• Forget Lehrer and Zakaria—Most Online Journalism Is Rotten to the Core
• Fox News Publishes Name Of SEAL Who Led Bin Laden Raid---John Moody, Executive Vice President and Executive Editor FOX News says that, "Once you write a book, anonymously or not, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy." And soon enough, "Mark Owen" has been targetted by Jihadists.
• Why didn't CNN's international arm air its own documentary on Bahrain's Arab Spring repression?--"I couldn't believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting."

Politics

• Why George Orwell is as relevant today as ever
• Brave New World: Aldous Huxley’s predictions seem to be upon us--"Eighty-one years ago this month, while living in the south of France, Aldous Huxley completed his timeless satire about an infantilized, drug-dependent, science-controlled, consumer society — much like our own."
• Idiocracy is Coming True

Military

• The modern US army: unfit for service?--"Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is more like a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit."
• Congress Passes Restrictions On Military Funeral Protests, Delivers Blow To Westboro Baptist Church--And Obama has signed it as well as bill helping the families of Camp Lejeune.
• Obama announces 'reverse bootcamp' for veterans
• How do you get a sick day if you work for the military?
• Sarah Lawrence, With Guns--"We asked a former West Point professor about teaching literature at the nation’s most prestigious military academy. What he told us revealed the truth behind the country’s most elite warrior caste – and how liberal heroes like Thoreau and the Beats inspire the next generation of 'Runaway Generals.'"

Local Government

• Woman Sues City of Tulsa For Cutting Down Her Edible Garden
• Man Sentenced to 30 Days for Catching Rain Water on Own Property Enters Jail--"The Oregon Water Resources Department, claims that Harrington has been violating the state's water use law by diverting water from streams running into the Big Butte River."
• Pitchfork-wielding Virginia farmers rally against birthday party fine
• Phoenix Woman Ordered to Not Give Out Water in 112 Degree Heat Because She Lacked a Permit
• Code Enforcement Officer Enters Woman's Home--Is he or is he not facing charges for trespassing?
• Canada: Front yard gardener wins over officials with petition--"[N]ot only will the garden stay, but the town publicly announced that it will implement new guidelines which explicitly permit it."
• Blast from the Past: Politician Breaks Into Home, Sues Owners For Injuries--And later on withdraws the lawsuit.