Inspired by female warrior characters in video games and movies like “The Hunger Games,” toymakers are going butch, selling violence-themed merchandise like bows and guns, but colored pink for girls.
Premium Ignition Option
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13 people died because GM refused to switch out a faulty ignition switch on the Chevy Cobalt and other models, despite being aware of the problem. The change would have cost GM 90 cents per car.
From Street Walker to Call Girl
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The US Supreme Court has ruled to abolish overall caps on federal campaign contributions, bringing an end to most meaningful limits on the influence of money on Congress. Yeah, there’s going to be even more corruption. But think of the bright side: Congress can ask their sponsors for even more money! If nothing else, it will stimulate the economy.
Death Benefit
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No expense is spared to retrieve dead bodies, whether it’s the victims of the Malaysian Flight 370 victims at the bottom of the Indian Ocean or the mudslide victims buried by sludge in coastal Washington State or the soldiers who cannot be left behind on the field of battle. Yet when we’re ALIVE, we can’t get help when, for example, we lose our jobs.
G-1
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The G-8 expelled Russia over the invasion of Crimea, reducing it to the G-7. This sets a precedent: any country that pisses off the United States will get thrown out. How many will that leave?
Religious Beliefs of Corporations
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The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a lawsuit brought by Hobby Lobby, a corporation whose executives claim their religious beliefs as justification for refusing to provide certain kinds of birth control to their employees under the Affordable Care Act.
Miraculous Architecture
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An intact Bible has been recovered from the charred rubble of a building explosion in New York. Some are calling it a miracle. This kind of thing also happens when religious icons survive tornadoes. Isn’t it time that we began using the science of religious icon preservation to save human lives?
A New Home for the Tinfoil Hat
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The Snowden revelations about the NSA have switched things up: Now, if you DON’T think the government is spying on you, you’re crazy.
Intolerable
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The United States government is lecturing Russia about the invasion and annexation of Crimea, formerly part of Ukraine. But whatever moral standing the U.S. has is undermined, not only by its recent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, but by the tale of its own territorial expansion, beginning with the dispossession and genocide of the Native Americans.
Inflammatory Topics
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In the terrorism trial of Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law, government prosecutors asked the judge to ban “inflammatory subjects” such as Guantanamo, secret prisons, drones and the NSA.
