I recently found a series of broadcasts online by Orson Welles featuring guests including Charles Laughton and Groucho Marx.

They are incredible.

Entertaining, thought-provoking, intelligent, fun and deeply serious all in one.

Here is a link.

My take...the coach has no business coaching "students", way over the line.  The AD's scalp might be a bit much, I mean he did address the situation with a suspension and fine, it's not like he encouraged or ignored it.  But that's how these things snowball.  I hear people want the university president's head too....then it gets ridiculous.

Apparently, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council has

passed Resolution 13-60 "reaffirming the Yellow Bird Steele-Poor Bear administration opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline from crossing the Mni Wiconi Water Line, any part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and any and all 1851 and 1868 treaty lands."
The Keystone XL pipeline's planned route crosses much of the Lakota treaty territory, meaning the resolution bans the Pipeline from most of the northern great plains. The resolution also cites the traditional and contemporary responsibility of all Lakota people: "through ancient indigenous cultural and spiritual concepts we have always respected and maintained good relations with the animals, air, land and water of our traditional homelands since time immemorial."

The Resolution also bans any governmental consultation with any entity of the Oglala Sioux Tribe to negotiate passage on behalf of the Tribe.

In a victory for birth control access, a U.S. federal judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to remove the current restrictions on the morning after pill, commonly known as "Plan B." Even though the FDA initially recommended that Plan B should be available without a prescription for women of all ages, the Obama Administration overruled that decision in 2011 to restrict access to emergency contraception for those under the age of 17. On Friday, citing the administration's unnecessary "political interference" in the matter, Judge Edward R. Korman ordered the federal agency to reverse that decision.

Korman -- a Reagan-appointed judge -- determined that there's no reason to prevent teens from purchasing Plan B over the counter, pointing out that the morning after pill is "among the safest drugs sold over the counter." The judge also criticized HHS's decision to overrule the FDA, explaining that "many public health experts saw as a politically-motivated effort to avoid riling religious groups and others opposed to making birth control available to girls." link

The tech industry wants more skilled workers -- from overseas. Companies are lobbying hard for Congress to raise the -- visas for people with specialized skills -- researchers, for instance, or software engineers.
...
...The biggest users of H-1Bs are consulting companies, or as Ron Hira calls them, "offshore-outsourcing firms."

"The top 10 recipients in [the] last fiscal year were all offshore-outsourcers. And they got 40,000 of the 85,000 visas -- which is astonishing," he says.

Hira's a professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He's also the son of Indian immigrants and has a personal interest in questions of labor flow across borders.

For the past decade, he's been studying how consulting firms use temporary work visas to help American companies cut costs. He says they use the visas to supply cheaper workers here, but also to smooth the transfer of American jobs to information-technology centers overseas.

"What these firms have done is exploit the loopholes in the H-1B program to bring in on-site workers to learn the jobs [of] the Americans to then ship it back offshore," he says. "And also to bring in on-site workers who are cheaper on the H-1B and undercut American workers right here."

The biggest user of H-1B last year was Cognizant, a firm based in New Jersey. The company got 9,000 new visas. Following close behind were Infosys, Wipro and Tata ‑‑ all Indian firms. They're not household names, but they loom large in tech places like the Seattle suburbs. link

Aetna Seeks To Avoid Obamacare Rules Next Year

WASHINGTON -- One of the largest health insurance companies in the United States is advising insurance brokers on how to evade new mandates and benefits set to take effect next year under President Barack Obama's health care reform law.

In an email sent to brokers, the insurance giant Aetna explains how they can renew customers' current health plans before Jan. 1, a strategy the Los Angeles Times reported this week is under consideration at other big health insurance companies.

Obamacare includes a number of new rules for health insurance plans that will become law at the beginning of next year, or whenever existing policies expire. By extending customers' plans before then, health insurance companies and their customers can lock in health plans that don't adhere to those rules for up to one more year.

Among the new rules this approach could skirt are requirements that health insurance cover a minimum set of benefits, prohibitions on turning away people with pre-existing conditions, bans on charging higher rates to sick people or to women, limitations on how much extra older people can be asked to pay, and rules against insurance companies refusing to renew policies.

The company is calling its outreach to insurance brokers "Aetna's Premium Savings program." link

Thousands of gallons of oil have spilled from a pipeline in Texas, the third accident of its kind in only a week.By Monday, Shell spokespeople said inspectors found "no evidence" of an oil leak, but days later it was revealed that a breach did occur. Representatives with the US Coast Guard confirmed to Dow Jones on Thursday that roughly 50 barrels of oil spilled from a pipe near Houston, Texas and entered a waterway that connects to the Gulf of Mexico.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Steven Lehman said that Shell had dispatched clean-up crews that were working hard to correct any damage to Vince Bayou, a small waterway that runs for less than 20 miles from the Houston area into a shipping channel that opens into the Gulf. link

30-40 years ago they would have committed this guy.

Why exactly don't we do that anymore?

Maybe if we spent more time looking at our Mental Health laws and systems we'd actually prevent these things.

SANFORD - Trayvon Martin's parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed

So Social Security and Medicare will be slashed.
So what.

Focus on the good news.

Obama is recommending spending an extra 100 million dollars so that we can capture an as yet undesignated asteroid four years earlier than expected.

We would have had to wait until 2023 to capture this rock without the 100 million. But now, the date will be 2019.

Robert Braun, a former NASA technology officer says,

This would be the first time ever humanity has manipulated a space object in such a grand scale, like what it does on Earth