We have Kentucky's new senator, Rand Paul, of the Tea Party, who thinks that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was too broad; small businesses like luncheonettes should be exempt. What planet is this guy from? I also have no idea what a luncheonette is, but that's another matter.
We have all kinds of outrageous stuff happening in the gulf. It turns out the lab that is doing the tests on samples of water counts BP as one of its biggest clients. Animal rescue workers who are also supposed to be collecting data on the extent of the damage are part of a company hired by BP. The corruption goes on and on. It's truly amazing how greedy some people can be. You would think at some point they would realize that they are ruining the world.
We have the Dow down 1,100 points in the last month due to a pending crisis in Europe.
We have paintings stolen from the Palais de Tokyo (whose alarm system had been malfunctioning for two months, hmm reminiscent of the Deepwater Horizon).
We have a Chinese man imprisoned for hosting orgies at his apartment.
We have Pakistan banning Youtube, Facebook, some Flickr pages, some Wikipedia pages, and a bunch of other websites.
We have a gay couple in Malawi sentenced to 14 years of hard labor in prison for having an engagement party.
We have the Ethiopian election, in preparation for which, the government has been imprisoning and killing dissenters.
We have China, now going to start closely regulating photocopiers in Tibet to prevent the distribution of incendiary material.
That's pretty heavy, I would say. Or maybe it's just that I have the time to read the New York Times now and not just the quick internet blurbs.
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