And now, headlines!

[theweaselking]

A Swedish nuclear power plant shut down one of its three reactors Monday because of an abnormal accumulation of jellyfish in the cooling system.

Man, I hate it when I get an abnormal accumulation of jellyfish in MY cooling system. It's so squishy!

A American federal judge has ruled that all possession of the Catholic Church are available to be liquidated to pay off lawsuits against the church, not just possessions under the control of the priest whose actions inspired the lawsuit.

United Methodist Church joining together with their "Christian Brothers and Sisters in Christ", the Ku Klux Klan, to to protest homosexuals.

On the same kind of thinking, man drags dog behind his ATV, threatens to shoot his neighbours for interfering. The dog is recovering, but has severe damage to his paws.

The Revealer covers why what Newsweek is doing is bad reporting... again.

Comments

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

all possession of the Catholic Church are available to be liquidated to pay off lawsuits

I've always wanted to live in a church. Or a lighthouse, possibly. (There are a number of lighthouses in the U.S. that you can buy from the government as long as you agree to maintain them. They're expensive, though.)

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Churches can be good, but you really have to treat them as an empty shell most of the time and completely refurbish with insulated windows and roof before it even gets mildly reasonable to live in them, at least if they're the older kind that looks cool -- newer modern churches just ar fugly. I've always liked the abandoned missile silo thing, myself. They're under a million bucks completely refurbished into a spectacular home, *and* your entire house is inside a nuke shelter.

I wonder how long before most churches around reform into priests being employees with a salary, rather than one big organisation, the individual people of which cannot be held individually liable.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

I think that saying that all the assets of the Catholic Church being available to pay lawsuits against the Church or particular priests is a fucking great idea.
That man should get a medal.
Why? In rigidly heirarchial systems, such as what the Catholic Church uses, the actions of subordinates are the responsibility of superiors. When you assume a position of absolute or near-absolute authority over somebody, you ethically assume a position of absolute or near-absolute responsibility for the actions of that person.
Take the fuckin' money they've wasted on ostentious cathedrals and put it to the uses that their own holy book says it should be put.

[toku666.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't one jellyfish in a nuclear plant's coolant system be abnormal?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Not when you're pumping in the Baltic Sea as "coolant".

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

This is the secondary coolant system, not the primary. Well, actually, it's probably the tertiary system, but anyway it's not the stuff that directly cools the reactor core.

[toku666.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm more or less completely ignorant about the precise workings of nuclear power plants.