This is what 24 a day news channels live for

I'm trying to keep up posting for y'all on mondays and fridays (which'll be a TONNN easier when i'm in korea and a half day of east coast standard time) but wow it's hard to think of stuff to write when work's taken over. But wow! what a news cycle day! This is probably just all rehash, but I want this for my own blog records, and to be able to point back to this previous blog post as a day when 24 hour news cycles made sense.

Look at everything that happened!*
(*that i think you should know about)

King of Pop pops - poor taste i know, but check out how it was reported on idontlikeyouinthatway and you'll think better of me.

Shaq goes to Cavs; Vince Carter goes to Magic; Hasheem Thabeet goes to the Thunder; I think it's funnier if use the new york times article to relay a sports story

probably one of the worst ways to use the word 'also' in a sentence, but Farrah Fawcett also passed today.

The Washington Post is saying that the environmental cap-and-trade bill is going to pass by a slim margin when we rouse ourselves for lunchtime on friday. Don't get me started about people arguing about 'deadweight' loss. We should worry about change in business strategy that will completely alter the original data that our projections and graphs are built on that may just reallocate our problems instead of solving and ending up costing us time, money, and effort, but don't tell me you're against something because you're worried about how you'll have to clean stuff that you were supposed to in the first place.

Strip searching kids at school is officially unconstitutional (as reported by a Kansas City Paper no less!) really, I'd make you read the article yourself, but I want to bestow two tidbits so you can safely pass to the next paragraph. 1) while this may seem like a big 'Duh!' moment, this is really one of the earliest, largest, and most tangible decisions that sides in the favor of student privacy when dealing with schools (public or private). Hell, MTV has their own show about extremely biased high school injustice (reported in an equally biased ratings way), and to me, it actually means alot to say that justice can and should be enforced in both respects; that a person doesn't give up their privacy rights to attend school. That's a solid statement that I'm glad is on the books. Granted, some kids are awful (and we all love to blame parenting, and I hope in a later post to draw some kind of syllogism between how we're becoming better workers, but worse role models - but again, that's later). What am I trying to say? It's nice to know that a school administrator can't search a girl's underwear for drugs when there's no tangible suspicion. hearkens back to my TSA Post.

oh, and #2) direct quote from the article: "Justice Clarence Thomas was the only member of the court to decide that the search of Redding was reasonable"re: Clarence Thomas, amazed by the simple pleasures of dishwasher technology

In an alternatively apocolyptic sense, yet another example about how good things (Lord of the Rings - actually releasing an epic, well done feature based on a geeked out fantasyland) into a bad thing (Channel Two in Iran is playing a Lord of the Rings Marathon to keep people inside so they stop protesting)

The socio-political anthropologist in me went ga-ga over this one: Afgan rug tapestries chronicling a history of their country's violence.

and to end on a happy note: Nobody throws a Luau like the Obama's

Mahalo everyone - all the best for the weekend