QuantumTom

Marshall Islands President Legalizes Cocaine, Removes Visa Requirements

I thought this was a headline from “The Onion,” but it appears not.

The newly inducted president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands has announced the tiny Pacific nation had legalized the use of cocaine by executive order.

President Jurelang Zedkaia, a traditional chief and politician, said the Marshall Islands would also be introducing a no-visa unrestricted entry program for foreign nationals of any country.

Apparently, the country’s leader feels like, “we can totally not sink, if we can just keep doing blow.”

via Marshall Islands Legalize Cocaine – CBS Breaking News.

Taking Wall Street Firmly To Task

“I had grossly underestimated the level of extraordinarily unethical and even fraudulent behavior that had occurred on such a large scale,” Ferguson tells All Things Considered host Melissa Block, in a conversation airing Friday.

via Inside Job Director Charles Ferguson, Taking Wall Street Firmly To Task : Monkey See : NPR.

Bahraini Doctors, Saudi Mercs, Nuclear Safety in Japan

While the world’s eyes are turned toward a possible nuclear disaster in Japan, Saudi and UAE mercenaries are attacking – not just protestors – physicians Salmaniya Hospital in Manāma, Al Manāmah, Bahrain. The doctors were trying to care for patients who were protesting and then attacked by soldiers loyal to the Al Khalifa family regime.

Incidentally, FIA was going to open the 2011 F1 season with a race at the new circuit in Bahrain.

This would be reprehensible under normal circumstances, but it is particularly concerning considering many of the protest leaders are themselves physicians.

The Saudis and the UAE have sent in “security forces”, aka Sunni mercenaries, to suppress the revolt in that country.

If you are one of the Al Saud family’s 1,100 crown princes, hear me out: you’re not doing yourself any favors.

Meanwhile, I’ve watched a little of the raw television news footage from the Fukushima I nuclear power plant in Japan and I can’t shake the feeling that it’s starting to look a lot like Chernobyl.

So, yeah.

Venture Villains, Part Deux: Fallen Arches

Click for embiggening

Made this pan out of four screens from “Fallen Arches.” In case you were wondering what all these guys are so excited about, it’s Rusty doing a shirtless “car wash” on his dad’s Walking Eye prototype.

Can’t remember the last time I was this turned off.

I mean, who wouldn’t be into that?

Disney Interactive Liberates 79 Parking Spaces for Glorious Struggle of Profitability

This just in – this morning Disney Interactive has let go of eighty employees, all but one of whom drove to work. Disney Online (aka DOL) seems to have made the decision to lower its overhead before it moves to its new offices in Glendale.