Thursday Roundup

Well, have class tonight and not much else going on. Here are some interesting stories.

Philip Workman is in prison in Tennessee and will be put to death for the death of a policeman who was killed in a robbery. Workman admits to the robbery but not the murder, saying someone else did it. Now he is trying to get a last minute stay of execution because he says the way Tennessee executes its criminals is painful. Tennessee allows the condemned to choose between lethal injection and the electric chair. The State has had a moratorium on executions for the last 90 days to insure the lethal injection procedures do not violate the 8th amendment. Workman says nothing has changed.

I don't know if lethal injection is painful or not, so lets scrap it and the electric chair and bring back the guillotine and have the condemned placed on it face up. Its quick and should be painless, and they can feel the fear their victims felt when they knew they were going to die, for a few minutes anyway. Hat tip Lucianne.

The sky is falling #1
Honeybees are dying off in large numbers and scientists are not sure why. The AP article sounds like we are going to have massive famine because of it. There have been a number of other articles in the news about it over the last week and while serious, its not time to stockpile food. Well in my opinion anyway. Some of the comments at Lucianne (hat tip) are interesting.

The sky is falling #2
If death by starvation in the US isn't bad enough, now we have a new pandemic to worry about. Moscow (Russia, not Idaho) reports a new strain of TB. While serious, the article implies we may have the next black death on our hands, which I have a hard time believing.

Have a good day and don't let the sky fall on you.