Swedes divided over biofuel from bunnies

From news.bbc.co.uk …

"That's amongst some people, particularly among some animal rights activists who think this is not a good way to treat rabbits." Remember what Anya said?

The crazies are in town

From www.talkingpointsmemo.com …

So there was this column on Newsmax, suggesting the strong possibility of an Officer-led military coup against USA President Obama …

Parenting

From www.time.com …

Superior Court Judge William Camarata of New Jersey, USA, has made the — to my mind completely amazing and crazy — decision to refuse a couple the right to adopt a second child. Why? Because "no person shall be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshipping Almighty God" and the would-be parents are atheists. John and Cynthia Burke of Newark had already adopted a son, David, from a local (state) agency and two years later adopted a little girl, Eleanor. From the same agency. The first adoption went fine but the court has proclaimed that because the parents do not believe in a supreme being — ie. "God" — then this makes them unfit to adopt. Given that all us children don't choose our parents and are, almost without exception, brought up in the same faith as those parents (at least while we live at home), then surely this decision makes absolutely no sense at all. The judge stated ""the child should have the freedom to worship as she sees fit" yet no other child gets that 'freedom' at only 17 months old! So now this little girl — who has only known John and Cynthia in the parenting role — has to be sent back to the adoption agency to await new, presumably court god-fearing parents. Only in America …? Update: Originally I had thought the date on the Time article was an error — 1970 being a default date on many systems and Google showed lots of recent results for the topic. Further searching, however, has produced a court report showing that this judge was reversed by the Supreme Court of New Jersey on July 1st, 1971. Sadly I haven't been able to find any follow-up on the family concerned, so I shall hope that they weren't too traumatised by these events of nearly 40 years ago! The point about upbringing still remains though …

Another reason to not use a SatNav

From www.theregister.co.uk …

Jones explained: It [the satnav] kept insisting the path was a road, even as it was getting narrower and steeper. I just trusted it. You don't expect to be taken nearly off a cliff. "I rely on my satnav. I couldn't do without it for my job, and this is the first time anything like this has ever happened. I guess I'm just lucky the car didn't slip all the way over the edge but it's been a bit of a nightmare." This is why maps were made, folks! Learn to read a map — preferably one from the Ordnance Survey for best quality — and you won't try driving up rivers or over cliffs.