Apparently, someone in Arizona thought the Fed’s lawsuit against the state’s new immigration law wasn’t proceeding fast enough: More »

From the Los Angeles Times:

As much of the world once more prepares to celebrate the birth of Christ, it is a melancholy fact that many of the most ancient churches established in his name are being pushed to the brink of oblivion across the region where their faith was born. More »

To the cloud, mornos!

Google’s new cloud computing ChromeOS looks like a plan “to push people into careless computing” by forcing them to store their data in the cloud rather than on machines directly under their control, warns Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the operating system GNU. More »

The worst owner in sports history strikes again:

It’s not uncommon to hear Los Angeles Clippers fans heckle Baron Davis. Of late, however, the jeers directed at the team’s struggling point guard are coming from a far more surprising source: The man paying Davis, Clippers owner Donald Sterling. More »

From Reuters via Yahoo News:

AOL Inc is actively exploring a breakup of the company in a complicated series of transactions that may lead to a merger with Yahoo Inc, sources close to the plans told Reuters.

AOL has not yet made a formal proposal to Yahoo, these people say. More »

John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley and former Justice Department official analyzes the latest terrorism conviction failure:

The near-total acquittal of an al Qaeda agent by a New York jury this week should, at a minimum, be the last gasp for President Obama’s misguided effort to wage the war on terrorism in the courtroom. But it should also spell the end for a broader law-enforcement approach that interferes with our effective prosecution of the conflict. The best course now is simply to detain al Qaeda members, exploit them for intelligence, and delay trials until the end of hostilities. More »

So much for all those lofty Communist ideals:

With President Raul Castro warning that Cuba will fall “off a cliff” if it does not fix its floundering economy, his government has issued a rescue plan to pull the country back from the edge, offering some of the most significant policy changes in a generation. More »

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It has come to my attention that we are severely lacking in the “rants” category here.  That can be remedied.

Recently I’ve been debating the wisdom of picking up a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops.  Thankfully, I was able to play through the game’s campaign on a friend’s computer, thus avoiding the price of admission. The importance of this point will become more apparent in a moment. More »

Environmentalists win another round in Los Angeles county:

Enacting one of the nation’s most aggressive environmental measures, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban plastic grocery bags in unincorporated areas of the county. More »