BBC News – Leading Pakistani Geo TV channel is ordered off air .

For something new and different, (not!) Pakistan is a freaking shit-show.

Bowe Bergdahl’s home town left bewildered by backlash against its hero | World news | theguardian.com.

There has been no definitive report, just a lot of innuendo. Truthfully the public doesn’t know what happened.
I think it was short-sighted and tactically weak to try and make a hero out of the young man in this media climate.
I suspect a message of, ‘we don’t leave anyone behind,’ would have played better.
I am -for the record- in favor of the swap which returned him. (Um, we don’t leave anyone behind? And seriously, would we have applied these standards to AWOL/POW soldiers in Vietnam? I hope to gawd not!)

Top takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries – CNN.com.

hmmm.

2014 Mississippi election: Dems prep war plan – POLITICO.com.

hmmm.

Vodafone Lays Bare Scale of Phone Tapping – WSJ.

hmmm.

Pentagon has protocol for returned captives – The Washington Post.

hmmm.

Everyone I Talk To Says ‘Who Cares?’ Then I Show Them This And They Freak Out A Little..

Best explanation of net neutrality, ever.

Russia says U.S. should push Ukrainian leader to halt violence .

Doublespeak is hilarious

The real marijuana story – CSMonitor.com.

CSM I am disappointed in you.
Most of this has been firmly debunked or proven to be more closely tied to socio-economic situations.
Let the NE Journal of Med insert cause and effect that doesn’t actually happen into its pages.
Why don’t you stick with reporting actual facts?

‘The Beast’ asteroid is hurtling past Earth. Here’s how to watch it. .

hmmm.

The life and awful death of a Tamil asylum seeker in Australia | World news | theguardian.com.

Sigh….

Sylvia Mathews Burwell: New Obamacare chief ran textbook campaign – POLITICO.com.

DID BHO just hire someone who actually know how to get her job done?
Well, I’ll be…

Who won the war? Russians take a different view on D-Day – Yahoo News.

what a partisan bunch of crap.

BBC News – Tuam children’s bodies: Catholic Church ‘has no records’.

disgusting.

German Lawmakers Plan to Quiz Snowden in Moscow – ABC News.

heh.

Israel to build 1,500 more homes in settlements | World news | theguardian.com.

Fucking animals.

Sexual harassment made a crime in Egypt – Middle East – Al Jazeera English.

hmmm.

Oil money flowed to Calif. senators who blocked fracking moratorium – Los Angeles Times.

Of course it did.

First draft of state GOP 2014 platform has revamped planks on immigration, homosexuality – Texas Politics.

What a bunch of backwards assholes.

I much prefer the old school northern yankee-style conservative.

“Does this behavior raise my taxes? No? OK, then. what the fuck do I care?”

Big Brother: Meet the Parents – Stephanie Simon – POLITICO.com.

lololololol.

…oh, and fuck Obama. He’s either or a total moran, absolutely the worse leader/administrator EVER or he truly does not give a shit about people outside his own circle. Fuck him, fuck his data mining, fuck his out-of-touch autocratic spit-on-the-citizenry Kafkaesque bullshit.

Today is the day we Reset the Net – Boing Boing.

hmmm.

In Search of America’s Best Burrito | FiveThirtyEight.

Awesome on so many levels

How Americans Got Red Meat Wrong – Nina Teicholz – The Atlantic.

Amen.

The Best Evidence Yet That Stephen Colbert Is Better Than Fox, MSNBC and CNN – PolicyMic.

I blame Wolf Blitzer too.

Fox’s Islamophobic Attack On The Facial Hair Of Bob Bergdahl | Blog | Media Matters for America.

Because FOX, like most news organization, truly doesn’t give a shit about the news.