Thursday Miscellany!
Oct. 10th, 2013 09:52 am- Last night, Twitter was all a-tweeting that the Prime Minister of Libya was kidnapped. This morning we found out that he was let go. This means that Libyan politics are officially less crazy than American politics.
- Speaking of which, I want to know who's funding these idiots and how much those campaign donors stand to gain on the US defaulting on its obligations. Billions? Trillions?
- Four former US intelligence officials went to Russia to present the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence to Edward Snowden. (Snowden is doing just fine, btw.) Meanwhile, the NSA is whining about all the media coverage of their spying on us.
- This is your daily reminder that the destruction of Syrian WMDs is going along just swimmingly.
- Scientists have measured the collapse of a quantum wave function in slow motion. Nice hack!
- Best tweet of the week:
"Ironically, the God Particle still can't explain why the Catholic Church has mass."