Lawyer: Rove Didn't Mean to Delete Email - "Karl Rove's lawyer on Friday dismissed the notion that President Bush's chief political adviser intentionally deleted his own e-mails from a Republican-sponsored server, saying Rove believed the communications were being preserved in accordance with the law." -- Mmm hmm.
GOP eyes success on war funding - "Senate Republicans yesterday said Democrats are weakening in the war-funding standoff with the White House, citing party infighting and the capitulation of its leaders to meet next week with President Bush."
Japan Lower House Passes Constitutional Revision Rules Bill - " The legislation is the first step in realizing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's goal of revising the constitution to allow Japan to assert itself militarily for the first time since the end of World War II. The document, written by U.S. occupation forces after Japan's defeat in 1945, renounces war as a sovereign right and forbids military forces."
Mexico moves to legalise euthanasia - "Mexico's Senate began discussing the legalisation of euthanasia on Thursday, adding to a spate of liberal moves in the country that includes the sanctioning of gay civil unions and abortion."
Net reaches out to final frontier - "The Department of Defense's Iris project will put an internet router in space by the start of 2009."
There is climate change censorship - and it's the deniers who dish it out - "This is the opposite of the story endlessly repeated in the rightwing press: that the IPCC, in collusion with governments, is conspiring to exaggerate the science. No one explains why governments should seek to amplify their own failures. In the wacky world of the climate conspiracists no explanations are required. The world's most conservative scientific body has somehow been transformed into a conspiracy of screaming demagogues."
Pope's New Book Criticizes Capitalism - "Pope Benedict XVI offers a personal meditation on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ in his first book as pontiff, criticizing the "cruelty" of capitalism's exploitation of the poor but also decrying the absence of God in Marxism."
Minorities are the emerging face of the subprime crisis - "How did a strawberry picker earning $15,000 a year qualify for a loan of $720,000? The answer, say the experts, lies in a lending industry that got too innovative for its own good."
Subprime bailout? $120 billion - "Want to pick up the check for every homeowner who got saddled with a risky mortgage? It's a big one - on the order of $120 billion. Lawmakers and consumer groups in recent weeks have been calling for assistance for those at risk of defaulting on their mortgage. ... But economists and industry experts say the cost of a bailout would be significantly more than that."
Violence against guardians an 'alarming trend' - "Many times the victims are bruised in a fight or shoved down stairs. Others are stabbed with scissors. Last November, one was beaten to death with a hammer. And the suspects, in more than 1,800 cases documented in Harris County over a recent 2½-year period, were their children."
Study: Flying the biggest source of trip trouble - "Asked to cite their "most problematic" trip experiences, 40 percent of those surveyed cited flight delays and 21 percent said airport security. Only 15 percent said hotel amenities and cleanliness, while 9 percent cited rental cars."
Selling stuff online? Here comes the IRS - "Americans who sell items through Internet auction sites could be in for an unpleasant surprise at tax time next year, thanks to an IRS proposal designed to identify taxpayers who don't report income from those sales."
Researchers explore scrapping Internet - "Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over." -- With more "control" passed off as "better security".
School Sex Tape Causes Furor in Chicago - "A principal and a teacher at a suburban elementary school quit amid allegations they were caught on video having sex in the principal's office, authorities say. In keeping with Cook County's reputation for bare-knuckle politics, the scandal broke after copies of the sex tape were mailed anonymously to parents this week, just days before a contested school board election. The case has also created something of a mystery: Who planted the camera that recorded the action?"
Abstinence education doesn't deter youths - "In all four test sites, youths in the abstinence-education program and youths who received regular school services were not different in their sexual behavior four to six years later." -- That's because humans are supposed to have sex. Say it. Humans are supposed to have sex.
Hollywood's Smoke Alarm - "Today cigarettes are more common onscreen than at any other time since midcentury: 75% of all Hollywood films--including 36% of those rated G or PG--show tobacco use, according to a 2006 survey by the University of California, San Francisco."
Frozen sea may harbour Mars life - "A frozen sea found on Mars is one of the most promising places to look for life on the Red Planet, scientists say."
Quote of the Day
"I'd love to change the world. But I don't know what to do. So I leave it up to you."
~ Ten Years After
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