Lion's share of news

Florida lawmakers try to give themselves complete legal immunity
Mitt Romney ties his dog to the roof of car on road trips
Chicago police arrest man for surfing on lake
Dog adopts 6 wild boar piglets
Heartland Institute emails reveal dishonestly regarding climate change
8 yo college student (now 14) graduates, writes book
Judge rules Marvel comic corp gets all profits, actual writers due nothing
Tiny lizard fits on head of matchstick
City pursues whistle blower instead of public employees caught in wrongdoing
NYPD actively spying on students all over US
Buffalo teachers get unlimited plastic surgery as part of contract
Seattle police dismiss complaint against cop who "threatened to make stuff up"
DNA sequencer size of USB stick charts your DNA in 6 hours
Firefighter falls 15 feet down fire pole, awarded 13 Million $$

Coughed up hairball is declared Best in Show

Irrefutable proof that dog people have questionable taste. Are we sure that this is actually a dog and not some sort of fuzzy hedgehog? When I think "dog" ..that aint it.

News you can use

Obama guts meaningful NASA funding for BS "manned" stuff
4 breeds that have never won at Westminster
73 cats found living in 1 bedroom apt
6 horrible contracts you've probably agreed to
Government considering making animal "luv'n" brothels illegal
Art made from insect body parts
Police arrest man for allegedly throwing a towel
Mass dolphin beaching continues in Massachusetts
5th grade teacher has students send letters to boyfriend in prison
State workers choose whether your child can eat their home packed lunch

Grumblings on a bad day

Grumble grumble. I went to one of these Florida food truck rallys everyone is talking about and it was hugely disappointing. There were like 4 bakery/donut/funnel cake trucks, a pizza truck and 3 actual food trucks with lines miles long. I ended up getting chicken in a sweet bun which wasnt bad but where was the hot dog truck ? The sandwich truck ? The taco truck?  I swear there is more food variety at the weekly farmers market. At least there you can get a Gyro.

One of my kids had a hockey game today and lost it 8-0. Wasnt his teams fault - their goalie is a beginner and the opponet goalie was making Hassek style saves. But it wasnt any fun to watch. And my kid kept passing it in front of his net. People are still coming up to me and telling me how amazing he skates for only first stepping on the ice 6 months ago. Boy is that a double edged sword when you've just lost 8-0 and your team is depending on you to score on one of the 5-6 break away he gets per game.

At one of the intermissions the league director informed me he'd just been fired and people might start asking why my kids havnt paid since he had apparently not informed his bosses of the decision to permit my kids to play for free.

My older kid was suppose to play a double header for a bantam league team that invited him to join them after he practiced with them last week but the arena director vetoed it - and never told me about this wonderful decision. So we are on time and dressed to play hockey and the kid is rightly upset that he didnt get to play this week and I'm left telling him they wont let him play with kids his age because hes too small. And were are both frustrated with this line of reasoning since there are kids of similar size and younger than him on this team..so what is it really about?  I feel like I failed since the 9yo gets to play 3 games this weekend while the 13yo got to play zero.

Brainbow

Scientists at Harvard express gay pride by painting individual neurons on a mouse brain each a different color. It got me thinking...everything in biology comes down to reproduction in some form or another. Except brain cells. Is intelligence un-biological?

Cant kill them fast enough

The horribly abused foster child in Florida has started talking about all the different abuses he and his sisters suffered. The caseworkers that failed to protect these kids are still keeping their jobs. I say you cant kill them fast enough. Throw the abusers AND the neglectors off the closest cliff you can find. I dont want valueless people lingering around to do more damage and I dont want to pay for them to sit in jail. In other news the guy in Washington used a hatchet on his 7 and 9yo sons before blowing them up.

After we hold accountable the directly involved I say we round up all the apathetic uninvolved rich people coasting through life and send them to liberate Syria or something.

Perspective

Here is a nifty little diagramming program that gives you an idea of scale from the tiniest particle to our galaxy and beyond. We are really a speck of a speck of a speck. For example I was reading somewhere that the 3 star in Orions belt, Betelgeuse, is 600 times the size of our sun.