News of the Weekend

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Iraq has turned into Somalia with better militias. Score!

Source: The New York Times

El Presidente's Legacy Obsession has led NASA to abandon 'basic science' on the International Space Station in order to divert funds to the ludicrous scheme to mine the moon, put Hello Kitty on Mars, or whatever the hell we're supposedly trying to do up there. As a result, a 1.5 billion dollar international instrument to do hard science on the ISS has been grounded, more or less forever, because we can't afford to fly it into space.

How lovely that Commander Codpiece gets his Mars Playset at the expense of, you know, the mission of the entire space agency.

Source: The Washington Post

In other El Presidente related news, the United States has asserted in a British court the right to kidnap British citizens rather than extradite them, for any crime, or rather, allegation of criminal activity, that it sees fit.

Seriously.

Source: The Times Online

Speaking of dictatorial madmen, Putin has decided that a sure thing isn't good enough for a rigged election -- it has to be rigged by a wide margin, to make him look more regal. So everyone who works for the government is being told to vote for Putin's slate in the election, or else. In a novel twist, some are being told they have to take a camera phone into the voting booth and photograph their ballots. It's nice to see Russia modernize their corruption.

Source: The Times Online

Finally, for a light-hearted story about how it's ok to treat men as overgrown children who need to be cared for by a responsible adult (misandry, in other words), look no further than Salzburg, Germany, where enterprising retailers have set up a 'Men's Creche' to put your shopping averse spouses into daycare while you burn the plastic on useless crap. They can hang out with other guys, drink and read Playboy! In a particularly cutesy touch, the women receive a numbered tag and have to use it to pick their man up, valet parking style.

Ye gods. This is insulting on so many levels at once it's quite frankly hard to parse. The worst part is, these men submit themselves to it. Face it, you Teutonic twits, if your wife has so little respect for you that she thinks you need to be warehoused out of the way so she can spend spend spend, you don't need daycare. You need a divorce.

Source: Raw Story