He had his fingers crossed, so no problem.

Let me just point this out The Bill of Rights for Busy People. Don't worry kids, you don't need those pesky "rights" things anyway.

I do not believe in a god, but I don't believe in organ donation either. I don't generally see a high quality of life for the recipients. In most cases it's just prolonging the agony. If the patients had more legs and the doctor had DVM after his name, this would have been called "inhumane".

Wrong. Recipients of kidney transplants have a high quality of life. As an anecdotal example, my son received a renal transplant 20 years ago and is sill going strong. For something non-anecdotal, see this also.

Who the hell is reading all of these text messages and deciding to arrest someone based on a single message? Is the automated NSA system flagging any message with the word "bomb" and reporting it to the Canadian cops? Were they already following this guy because he's a North African Muslim? Would this have happened to a WASPish white guy? How the hell did they get an arrest warrant based on a single text message? Don't they need warrants in Canada? There's a definite WTF factor about this article.

You mean like Warhol did with Superman?
"Art is what you can get away with." - Andy Warhol
It seems like you can't get away with as much these days, so art suffers.

Back in the heyday of the psychic networks, I actually got a call from some psychic network, soliciting I guess. I'm not sure how or why they got my phone number. I was dumbstruck for a moment, but then I told them if they were truly psychic they would have known I wouldn't be interested and hung up. Around the same time, I had a buddy who had a girlfriend who was working for some psychic hotline. It was a big scam. Keep the suckers on the line as long as you can and tell them what they want to hear, run up the minutes. She said she was going to quit and go back to phone sex work because it was more honest.

Googling "predictions of arctic fresh water plume" might be a start.

Part of the reason that the US does as well as it does is because cancer is largely a disease of the elderly. Health care for the elderly is socialized through Medicare. The US is particularly poor on infant mortality because of lack of public services for pregnant women and infants. Extend Medicare to pregnant women and I'll bet that would turn around fast. There's a big US debate about saving random fetuses but the infants and mothers among the uninsured don't seem to show up on the radar very well.

Do you have any evidence of that at all? Maybe AdBusters dreamed the idea up, but they are hardly highly paid top marketing types. They can barely market themselves. Where I live, the occupy group seems local. It was inspired by occupy Wall Street etc. but everything I have seen about the local activities makes me think the the occupy movement gave local folks a focus for a lot of existing concerns. Even if the spin doctors might have invented the memes, they lost control of them.

It's MY information about ME. I don't collect information about how many cans of soup the market sells and I couldn't without the store's permission. Why should I want them to collect information about me to be sold to a 3rd party without asking me and paying me? If that information is valuable to a store, it's valuable to me. I want to know what clear benefit there is to me and I want to decide which transactions I engage in. I realize that is probably a vain hope since we long ago stopped being customers and became products.

Or perhaps, you hide the event of being there.

Don't believe everything you read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln.

"Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body." wikipedia. It's not just the government, anyone who has control over the means of communication can be a censor.