News Roundup

• From the "Reciprocity" Department - A leader of the Tea Party movement has been arrested on weapons charges in New York after he tried to check a handgun at New York's La Guardia airport.  He was legal to own and carry the gun in his home state of California, but since New York doesn't believe that a responsible adult can be trusted with anything more deadly than a sharpened stick, he wasn't supposed to have the gun.  Now, take the last couple of sentences, and change them to read this way:  He was legal to own and carry the typewriter in his home state of California, but since New York doesn't believe that a responsible adult can be trusted with anything more deadly than a quill pen, he wasn't supposed to have the typewriter.  Also try substituting in Torah, lawyer, or other nouns that are related to enumerated rights.  BTW, there's a link to the Second Amendment Foundation on the right side of the page.  Something tells me they're going to be needing the money to take this case to court.
• From the "Bad to Worse" Department - A Tennessee man is in the hospital after crashing his truck into a store and then immediately crashing another car as he tried to get away.  The story is that he was trying to run down his girlfriend with his truck, missed, slammed into a building, injuring other people, then tried to flee in a stolen SUV, only to hit a bread truck.  I'm assuming this must all be true, because you just can't make stuff like this up.  Mr. Knievel is in the hospital for now, but I'm guessing that a few nice men from law enforcement will be having a nice long conversation with him once he's healthy enough to be taken to jail.
• From the "Bad Species!  No Biscuit!" Department - A scientist in Arizona is asserting that human activity is causing an increase of nitrogen in the environment.  He posits that an increase in the use of nitrogen based fertilizers and other compounds is causing too much nitrogen to flow to the lowest level of the food chain, which has repercussions for the health of everything above it.  I look forward to magazine covers and award winning movies about how reckless use of another organic common compound is destroying the planet, followed by shrieks that the science is settled and we ought not to be paying attention to the man behind the green curtain.
• From the "Brilliant!" Department - A teacher in Tennessee has been suspended and will probably be fired after an investigation into his writing the work "stupid" across the forehead of one of his students.  He says it was just a joke, I say it was child abuse.  Then again, maybe that's how he was taught to deal with a student who isn't entirely up to speed.  Maybe we can start tattooing "Moron" on the foreheads of people who pull stupid crap like this.