Two Muslim inmates in the Terre Haute federal prison are getting some help from the ACLU:
Two Muslim inmates held in a special unit at the federal prison in Terre Haute say they aren't allowed to pray in groups as often as their religion commands and have asked a federal judge to ease worship limits imposed by the Bureau of Prisons.
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Even I know enough not to just wander off without saying anything to anybody. My friend would rush over to the house to make sure I hadn't keeled over and become cat food. My sister would drive up from Indianapolis with a State Police escort. They'd probably rent out my office at work. Apparently, I'm a tad smarter than South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
The issue everyone seems to tiptoe around:
But in the Rose Garden at the White House, as he signed one of the nation's most aggressive anti-smoking provisions into law, Mr. Obama did something he almost never does. He talked about his addiction to smoking.
It has seemed like "The Catcher in the Rye" would go on forever, with each new generation discovering and identifying with the alienated Holden Caufield. But, apparently, the current generation of young men is fed up with the whiny little brat:
In the silly study of the week, it is reported that research "proves" dogs are smarter than cats. In an experiment, dogs and cats had to choose between two strings, one with a treat attached, one with nothing. The dogs had no problem, but the cats were mystified, demonstrating that dogs have a better understanding than cats of cause-and-effect connections between objects:
There's an old joke you've probably heard at least a version of.
Guy tries to calm down his seatmate on the plane, someone who's obviously terrified of flying.
"Look, it's all fate," he says. "When it's your turn to go, it's your turn to go. You could be on this plane or in your bedroom, it doesn't matter."
"But what if we're on this plane," the frightened mans asks, "when it's the pilot's turn to go?"
Then today we have this -- yikes! -- real-life story:
My other favorite TV experience of the last two days was the clip, showed over and over again, of President Obama's one-handed fly kill, followed by the exclamation, "I got the sucka." Naturally, PETA can't let something like this go by -- the wanton cruelty followed by such pride in the kill:
The best technological news of my lifetime is that "1984" turned out to be wrong. The totalitarian thugs have not had control of ever-more sophisticated means of communication, with which they can keep an eye on all of us and even rewrite history to keep us in line. The information revolution hasn't strengthened the oppressors. If anything, it's helped liberate the masses. Remember way back in 1991, when the fax was cutting-edge technology?
Only Monday, but this might stand up as quote of the week, from a forensic psychology professor, on Florida teenager Tyler Hayes Weinman, charged with 19 counts each of animal cruelty and improperly disposing of an animal body in the Miami serial cat killer case:
"When you kill cats, disembowel them and cut their heads off, that is not a good sign and you do not have to be Sigmund Freud to see that," he said.
