A few stories that caught my eye this weekend:
- After early treatment a two year old, born with AIDS, in Mississippi has been cured. It’s too bad that Mississippi doesn’t believe in science.
- Obama’s new budget chief is coming from Wal Mart, because Wal Mart has done soooo much to improve the US economy. (<– sarcasm)
- NATO forces are responsible for more civilian deaths in Afghanistan.
- Europe is set to start arming Syrian rebels.
- British PM David Cameron is on thin ice with his own party.
- the British parliament is set to vote on expanding secret courts.
- Two UK lawmakers are trying to repeal the European civil rights convention.
- The British legal system is being criticized for routine strip searches of children as young as 12.
- The state of Michigan is officially taking over the management of Detroit.
- South Dakota lawmakers have decided that women are incapable of thinking on weekends.
- NASA is set to test fly a new space vehicle in 2014.
- Telepathy is closer to being a real thing after two rat brains were linked across continents.
- A new wind turbine can power 6,000 homes.
- And Evil Dead 4, not a remake but a sequel to Army of Darkness, is in the works.
In the information age, news stories come 24/7 at a rate of thousands per hour. Don’t Blink is an attempt to round up a few of them and give you a second chance not to miss them.