A medium-size quake near Fukushima reminds us that a bigger quake could release all the radioactive material in the ruined nuclear plants.

The National Academy of Sciences found that many methods of identifying people from traces at a crime scene are bogus science, but juries think crime labs can do no wrong.

As a result, they are an excuse to imprison the "usual suspects" (for instance, blacks).

A school in Texas has banned sunscreen, causing students to get sunburnt. They say sunscreen is a drug.

This would be merely ludicrous if it were not the natural result of the "zero tolerance" idea that makes strictness (no matter how unreasonable) a goal in itself.

Meanwhile, sunscreen is not enough to avoid skin cancer, over the long term. People with a special susceptibility to melanoma really need to avoid activity in the sun.

Rebels in eastern Ukraine seized a gallery / cultural organization, apparently to shut it down.

The Tea Party challenger that defeated Rep. Cantor campaigned condemning plutocracy too.

So the plutocrats have a new lie: claiming that social programs to redistribute wealth to the many paradoxically cause poverty. It's nothing but Reagan's "trickle down" stated in a different way.