Hullabaloo, Caneck, Caneck

Whaddya mean "no singing allowed"?

To be or not to be. -- Shakespeare
To do is to be. -- Nietzsche
To be is to do. -- Sartre
Do be do be do. -- Sinatra

It's almost as if governmental units have come to believe that the purpose of government is to make its employees and their friends/favored contacts wealthy:

Denver police officers performed searches on state and federal criminal justice databases that were not work-related and instead were made to help officers' in the romance department and to assist friends, according to an independent department monitor. The report said that punishment, usually a written reprimand instead of being charged criminally, is not enough to deter future abuse of the National Crime information Center (NCIC) and the Colorado Crime Information Center (CCIC) databases.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/fearing-no-punishment-denver-cops-abuse-crime-databases-for-personal-gain/

In the "blame it on Teh JOOOS!" category:

More Israeli intelligence collecting sensors are being found in Lebanon, often disguised as rocks or rubble. Since 2013, as Hezbollah gunmen were sent into Syria and the Syrian rebels responded by operating aggressively on the Lebanese border, there have been a lot more activity on the Lebanese borders with Syria and Israel. That has led to more of these stealthy spying gadgets being found. Sometimes the discoveries are publicized as another example of sneaky Israeli behavior. There is a touch of envy in these news reports because it is an admission that the Israelis have developed some very impressive surveillance devices.

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htecm/articles/20151107.aspx

Why gun owners may not want a smart gun.

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/02/smart_guns_are_stupid_science.html

Mitch Daniels argues the opposing GMOs is morally indefensible.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/notable-quotable-mitch-daniels-on-anti-gmo-cruelty-1458340376

"There is a touch of envy in these news reports because it is an admission that the Israelis have developed some very impressive surveillance devices."

Damn, I'm kind of envious too. About ten years ago I worked on a project to try to develop sensors like this. The hard part was not the sensors themselves; it was getting the data back to the command post without putting up a bunch of radio relays that would be obvious targets for the enemy. It all disappeared into the cluster-F that Future Combat Systems became.