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REGULATION:

Thanks to our absurd patent system, after a two year case, Google has to pay Oracle $0 - yep, zero - for supposedly infringing Oracle's patents. The lawyers got rich. The judge made a lot of money. But the companies lost, and that means we all lost because that wealth was squandered in the parasitic political economy instead of working in the productive private sector to enrich us all.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Bernanke says he's ready to launch QE3 if necessary, as if QE1 and QE2 worked so well.

HEALTH CARE:

Radioactive patch cures skin cancer.

POLICE STATE:

Police chief who failed to hold Zimmerman after he killed Trayvon Martin fired. Even if Zimmerman was justified and he's found not guilty, it was just terribly unusual for him not to be held in jail during the investigation. I don't think people should routinely be held in jail during investigations, but that's the norm in murder investigations.

POLITICS:

Obama spent more than he raised in May.

"Obama, who has been able to accumulate cash as Romney fended off primary challengers, spent three times more in May than he did in April, reflecting new investments in staff — a total of 703 campaign workers in May, up from 631 a month earlier — and the barrage of television commercials in battleground states that have touted his record and slammed presumptive GOP nominee Romney's business career."

He's panicking. His spending isn't working.

MISC:

So lightning may have destroyed Columbia, not a problem with the heat tiles.

I'm glad to see somebody else recognizes this.

"But specialism and specialist jargon is the enemy of communication and the wide-ranging investigation needed to compose the “big picture” we call cosmology."

Specialized jargon is a tool to exclude outsiders.

Time Warner patents method for disabling fast forward on DVRs. So much for fast forwarding past commercials. This is going to piss people off big time. They can only get away with this because they are protected from robust competition by the government.