- Several tornadoes touched down in Illinois and Tennessee and 24,000 lost power as a line of strong storms tackled the Midwest last night.
- Arizona Republicans have passed legislation that would allow people to refuse services to customers based on religious beliefs, but similar bills have failed in several other red states.
- As the death toll from brutal government clashes in Ukraine's capital of Kiev has reached 75, EU ministers are desperately trying to broker a cease fire.
- This year's strain of flu has taken a severe toll on young and middle-aged adults as US hospitalizations and deaths from influenza are on the rise.
- Islamic clerics in the UAE have issued a fatwa against proposed one-way trips to Mars, saying that without the possibility of return to Earth, the trip amounts to suicide, prohibited in the Qur'an.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
"Can't stop you from being an asshole, but you can maybe not get a
ReplyDeletestate-sanctioned license plate declaring it to all of Earth, maybe?"
Although there are advantages (to the rest of us) in being warned of the presence of assholes.
The "Treason in Defense of Slavery" flag strikes me as more of a "DIE NI&&ER!" than a "Black Power" statement, but otherwise they are exactly alike.
ReplyDeleteAnd Lurker111 has an excellent point: I like to keep my violent racist pinheads where I can see them.