Former Mexican president Vicente Fox threw his weight Thursday behind a US entrepreneur’s drive to build a nationwide legal market for marijuana in the United States. Fox, Mexico’s leader from 200-2006, appeared at a Seattle press conference where businessman Jamen Shively said the US...
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Mexico’s ex-president Vicente Fox backs nationwide legal pot market in the U.S.
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Online boor finally pays the price in ‘You’re A Troll’
Consider this new video by Stage 5 TV a long-distance dedication — to all of those people who abused YouTube’s flag function to try to get Anita Sarkeesian’s videos yanked off-line, or who go online and offer nothing but thinly-veiled (if that) digital bile. “You’re a...
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Push for FBI Internet ‘wiretap’ law faces tough criticism from civil liberties groups
The FBI is stepping up its effort to get broader authority to put “wiretaps” on the Internet to catch criminals and terrorists. But the move is drawing fire from civil liberties groups, technology firms and others who claim the effort could be counterproductive, by harming online...
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Rupert Murdoch is now an old man on a lonely throne
In his 80s, with no clear successor, the media mogul and his spun-off newpaper operation are in a precarious position Matthew Parris went to the Orwell prizegiving the other day and suddenly saw red. Chris Mullin MP was giving a speech lauding fine investigative journalism – like that of this...
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Vegan hippy scientist hopes to save Africa by decoding ‘orphan crop’ genomes
Howard-Yana Shapiro, a scientist with the Mars confectionery company, will make the information free to boost harvests The future wellbeing of millions of Africans may rest in the unlikely hands of a vegan hippy scientist working for a sweet company who plans to map and then give away the genetic...
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Defiant protesters celebrate after police leave Istanbul’s Taksim Square
Thousands of protesters celebrated after police withdrew from Istanbul’s Taksim Square, the focal point of nationwide protests against Turkey’s Islamist-rooted government. The government, while acknowledging some excesses by police in two days of clashes, called on the demonstrators to...
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Queen Elizabeth marks 60 years since coronation
Queen Elizabeth II was marking the 60th anniversary of her coronation in private on Sunday after indulging in her passion for horses with a day at the races. The 87-year-old monarch and her husband Prince Philip spent Saturday at the Epsom Derby, echoing the events of a year ago that kicked off her...
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Berlin company specializes in autistic IT experts
When German software giant SAP said last month it plans to employ hundreds of autistic people as IT experts, the news was welcomed especially at a small Berlin computer consulting firm. The pioneering company, Auticon, already employs 17 people who live with autism, the disorder characterised by...
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Iran’s eight presidential hopefuls united in pursuing ‘peaceful atomic ambitions’
The eight candidates standing for president this month may differ on several issues, but when it comes to Iran’s nuclear drive they are united in pursuing what they see as its peaceful atomic ambitions. Whoever is elected president on June 14 to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Islamic...
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Why did the Neanderthals die out?
A major conference in London this week will reveal the results of five years’ research on why Homo sapiens emerged triumphant in the survival battle of the humans The puzzle is one of the greatest surrounding our species. On a planet that bristled with different types of human being,...
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Priebus: Paul Ryan’s budget proves Republicans aren’t grandstanding
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said on Sunday that by passing Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget to slash the size of government and shift Medicare into a voucher system, the party had proved that it was not grandstanding or obstructing President Barack Obama. At a...
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Single mothers in Chinese provence face hefty fines for birthing out of wedlock
Women in Wuhan province could be fined £17,000 – six times average disposable income – for having a child out of wedlock The central Chinese city of Wuhan has published a draft ordinance that would fine women who have children out of wedlock more than £17,000, highlighting the country’s...
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Tucker Carlson: Florida atheist monument ‘will be magnet for graffiti’
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Sunday predicted that Christians and other people in Florida would deface the first atheist monument to be placed on government property. In a news release last week, American Atheists President David Silverman explained that a 1,500-pound granite bench was being...
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Mad Men Recaps Coming Soon
Sorry about the delay; we’ve been moving and have to find the stuff we use to make the Orange Couch before we can actually make it! But hopefully soon. Consider this an open TV thread to talk about both Mad Men and Game of Thrones.
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West Virginia town to rollback gun restrictions in public pools and parks
By Lois Beckett, ProPublica If you feel unsafe at a public pool in Charleston, W.Va., you may soon have the right to lie there on a towel with a handgun at your side. For 20 years, Charleston has been an island of modest gun restrictions in a very pro-gun rights state. But its gun laws 2014...
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Bradley Manning trial ‘dangerous’ for civil liberties: experts
Soldier faces charge of ‘aiding the enemy’ by downloading and leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents The trial of Bradley Manning, the US soldier who leaked a trove of state secrets to WikiLeaks, could set an ominous precedent that will chill freedom of speech and turn...
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Saudi prince reserves portions of Disneyland Paris for $19.5 million
A Saudi prince spent 15 million euros ($19.5 million) for three days of fun at Disneyland near Paris to celebrate his degree, the group that runs the theme park said Monday. Prince Fahd al-Saud booked entire areas of the park over May 22 to 24 for his 60-odd guests. The festivities included...
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Alabama police officer fatally shoots ex-girlfriend, her stepfather and himself
Police in Selma, Alabama have confirmed that one of their officers shot and killed two people before turning the gun on himself. Selma police said that officers responded to the 2400 block of Springdale Street at around 12:10 p.m. on Sunday, where they found Dwight Moorer and his ex-girlfriend shot...
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Native American student denied high school diploma for wearing tribal feather
A high school graduate in Alabama is being denied her diploma after being fined $1,000 for wearing a feather reflecting her Native American heritage. “I don’t think it’s fair at all,” 17-year-old Chelsey Ramer told WPMI-TV. “I feel like its discrimination.”...
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Delaware abortion doctor blames Planned Parenthood for clinic’s ‘headaches’
An abortion doctor being pursued by Republican lawmakers in Delaware told a local reporter that Planned Parenthood itself was to blame for what he called “headaches” at a clinic in Wilmington. In a series of lengthy interviews, Dr. Timothy Liveright told The News Journal that management...
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