They Have Real Problems, Too? Three convicted murderers escaped a medium-security prison in Arizona last night. All three are U.S. citizens.

Oh My God: Clint Didier, country song cliche.

Is That You, HAL? One of the coolant systems on the International Space Station malfunctioned last night, forcing the crew to shut down several non-essential systems. At least two spacewalks will likely be required to replace the coolant pumps.

Party Like It’s 1832: Missouri to vote on referendum nullifying parts of the new health care law in the state’s Tuesday primary. The measure has been ignored by state Democratic leaders as “meaningless and unconstitutional,” while Republican proponents (apparently blindingly ignorant of U.S. history and the Constitution) are publicizing it as “a throw-down by the states.”

Criminal Priests: Not Just for Catholics Anymore: The indigenous Aymara priest who blessed Bolivian president Evo Morales at his inauguration has been arrested for possession of 530 lbs (!!!) of cocaine.

Freedom Is Slavery: The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia will block Blackberry messaging devices because it is too hard to censor raises “judicial, social, and national security concerns.”

Today In Child Pornography: Seattle man sentenced to fourteen years for possession, after dropping off his laptop chock-full of over 2000 images of child porn at a repair shop. He had been previously convicted for three charges of actual child abuse.

One Good Thing About the Economy: Cheaper knockoffs.

Seriously? Ben Nelson, world’s worst most conservative Democratic Senator, to vote against Elena Kagan, citing nebulous, undefined “concerns” from nameless constituents.

Maybe Good News… Twenty billionth tweet sent, less than five months after Twitter passed the ten billion mark. The tweet (translated from Japanese) was “so that means the barrage might come back later all at once.”

…Definitely Bad News: China, which last year blocked Twitter and Facebook, is now restricting Twitter-imitators (twimitators? twitmitators?) whose microblogs were being used to document rights abuses and demonstrations.

11 replies on “The Morning News”

  1. It’s the tyrannies that are blocking internet access. It’s the tyrannies that have the most to lose from an educated public. The internet will bring down the world’s tyrants. That includes the pope!

  5. Check out those Clint Didier campaign theme song lyrics. It seems he’s a-fixin’ to return as promised (just like Jesus), armed to the teeth (JUST like Jesus), smack down the evil ones (just like JESUS!), bleed as much as it takes (just like JESUS!), and “redeem what’s left” (just like effin’ JESUS!!!).

    How is Dino Rossi gonna top that?

  6. of course, you might argue that pictures on your computer beats actual molesting – since people are what people are – but high grade stupid dropping the ‘puter off at the shop with the images on the drive…

  10. I’d vote against Kagan but not for the reason Ben Nelson is. I’m just not excited about bring the morality of Goldman Sachs to the Supreme Court; we’ve got enough problems with the court without adding another voice for corporatism.

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