Then again, ignorance IS bliss - if no one had video'ed the Rodney King beatdown, maybe the L.A. Riots never would have happened. Was the revelation that L.A. cops are corrupt & violent worth the 50 lives that were lost? Pity no one cared enough to ask, especially since NOTHING CHANGED. I'd say keep your phone in your ...more

This country fancies itself a Capitalism, and in proving it, will tolerate any disparities, allow corporate malfeasance on a national (if not global) scale and PROTECT the wealth of our 1% at the expense of everyone else. That's the logical endpoint of Capitalism, ONE vendor for everything, same as the days of Robber B...more

"samples taken"? What body part, age of animals, etc.? This ain't cute OR funny - too many sources of radiation to blow this off as just Chernobyl. Isn't northern Italy a smugglers superhighway? Maybe the pigs found cast-off nuclear material, abandoned by smugglers. The possibilities are endless...

Good girl - do whatcha can to stay off the opiates, a little relief now can cost ya your sanity later...

Yup, and Bush should have thought abou t"all the problems" fighting a war of choice would cause. But he did it anyway, with YOUR logic should we now deny soldiers care & benefits because they "started f-king around" with WAR?!?!?

Demonstrates a fundamental flaw in the 911 system - as long as ANY. EVERY and ALL cell phones, regardless their age or construction, can initiate 911 calls without being tracked themselves, this "swatting" will continue...

Gonna need to ban the kids on the bus who yell out the so-called "racial epithet" every 3 seconds on a school day. Does eBay also ban hip-hop albums? Just skinhead rock? Oldskool acid rock (promotes drug use) ? But yeah, it's just a business, as long as it  pays dividends  - anything goes. Just ask BP, Exxon, etc...

Yeah, but it's not like we don't see the SAME attitude in the US - it's just the GOP and TPers are smart enuff not to say it out loud. The official stance of every right-winger, YOU'RE NOT ENTITLED TO ANYTHING. Even if you paid for it...

Waterboarding isn't torture, Jesus Christ loved the wealthy above all else & Africans were lucky they were raped & pillaged by their own ppl for the benefit of the European colonialists. Great, I imagine the Taliban will be our greatest ally & religion trumps states' rights under RoRy too, I s'pose...