So, yeah. We all know that Obama is trying to push major health care changes through the US Congress and it is, predictably, proving somewhat controversial and moving a bit slowly. I consider this to be a good thing, as I believe that the Founding Fathers deliberately engineered the American federal government to move slowly and actually do very little, if anything, unless it has overwhelming popular support¹.

All-too-predictably, this is leading to a wave of political grandstanding, mis- or dis-information, and loonies coming out of the woodwork (on both sides).

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the October, 2003 strip search of a 13-year-old girl for ibuprofen was unconstitutional. Good to see they got that right, even if it wasn't quite unanimous.¹

Unfortunately, if you read down to the final paragraph of that article, they got the secondary decision in the case wrong:

Where is the accountability if the search is not found to have been conducted "under district policy"?

Sweden will be holding its elections for the EU parliament on Sunday and it appears that the major established political parties here are softening their stances on intellectual property enforcement as the election approaches. Although it may actually be unrelated, one obvious explanation would be that polls are currently showing that the Swedish Pirate Party ("piratpartiet") can be expected to win one seat in the election, possibly two, out of 19 total for Sweden.

What can we expect to see next if gay marriage is legalized?