HEADLINE HOPPING

IRONY OF THE DAY
Leftwing Guardian pans George Clooney's movie as "unfair and unbalanced" for advocating activist journalism.

BAD TIMING
Dire warning from the UK Independent. "The entire northern hemisphere is experiencing a sustained period of warming that is unprecedented in the past millennium, a study has found." on the same day when New York and New Jersey are expecting 10-12 inches of snow and the Ukraine is in a mini-ice age.
(Oh no!! It's global cooling from those American bastards who are polluting our planet.)

(ANOTHER) CALIFORNIA RULE AGAINST SOMETHING
It's now illegal to throw batteries, cellular phones, fluorescent lights, printers, VCRs, answering machines, computer and television monitors, and radios into the garbage. E-Waste such as this must be collected by some sort of mandated local community system.

ASSOCIATED PRESS ERRS
Yes, the Oakland, CA, attempt to tax fast food restaurants for litter was not a first. It was first attempted in Chicago in 1999 but subsequently ruled against in court.

FIRST BIRD FLU IN EUROPE
Seventeen swans die in Sicily. Glenn Reynolds seems convinced we are all going to die of this. But given the track record of the world beaucracies in predicting anything accurately and spending large sums of money in the pursuit of solutions that never materialize for problems that are grossly over-hyped, I am less horrified.
(I am, however, buying stock in Kleenex if they should develop teeny, tiny nose tissues for the world fowl population.)