How US-Saudi oil competition looks , from a shallow nationalist perspective that ignores the danger of global heating.

It's like two cars racing towards the edge of a cliff, each driver set on being the first one over the edge.

Shooting guns into the air to celebrate is substantially dangerous — to other people.

It might be interesting to make a "celebration gun" that fires the charge in a bullet, but has a hole in the barrel so that the hot gas escapes harmlessly and does not propel the bullet out of the gun. With that, you could have the fun of shooting bullets but they could not hit anyone.

Japan is pressuring people to return to areas near Fukushima that remain somewhat radioactive, by cutting the funds that enable them to live somewhere else.

A Planned Parenthood staffer discussed the expenses and methods for obtaining fetal tissue for research, and took a somewhat flip tone. Or at least it appears that way, in an edited video made by an antiabortion fanatic.

If the video accurately represents what the staffer said, it doesn't indicate anything wrong in what he does. However, the theocrats will try to spin the flip tone into a real wrong.

The Onion's satire — missiles will make a cranky Netanyahu calm down — was imitated by reality.