Lyon County Sheriff Al McNeil makes sense

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“This is rural Nevada, and every home has a gun. My biggest concern [about teens escaping from the local juvenile rehabilitation center] is one of these kids will go into a house at 2 a.m., and there will be a farmer or a rancher there — and we’ll have a fatal shooting. In Nevada, that would be a justifiable homicide, but nobody wants to see that,” he added.

via Uprising at juvenile camp leads sheriff to call for changes – seattlepi.com.

Curt Schilling stands up to Internet trolls; one fired, the other suspended from college

When the Internet trolls started making rape jokes about his teenage daughter, former baseball player Curt Schilling tracked two of them down. As a result, Adam Nagel has been suspended by Brookdale Community College and Sean MacDonald has been fired from his part-time job selling tickets for the Yankees.

Good for Schilling.

But an even better story is how Australian game reviewer Alanah Pearce responded to rape threats by contacting the mothers of some of the trolls!

The world we live in…Man has it changed. ADDENDUM! | 38 Pitches.

Andrew Cuomo moves state officials from email to Snapchat

In an effort to make NY state government more efficient, all state employees will have their email accounts closed and be given new accounts on Snapchat, where their messages will be automatically deleted in 10 seconds.

Cuomo announced, “This will make NY state government more nimble, more responsive, and more transparent, as well as saving hundreds of trees every week.”

Responding to critics who said this would make it harder for prosecutors to track illegal activities of state officials, Cuomo said, “Some people out there are whinny pussies who don’t want us to embrace the latest technological improvements.”

Email scandal shows N.Y. governor is either incompetent or corrupt.

Brian Williams Joins Weekly World News, Batboy welcomes new colleague

Former NBC News anchor Brian Williams got some great news on Friday. Neil McGinness, the publisher of Weekly World News, announced that Brian Williams will be joining Weekly World News as the Managing Editor and the anchor of the soon-to-be-launched Weekly World News nightly news show.

“We think Brian is the perfect match for our publication and network,” McGinness told reporters on Friday. “His experience as an anchor, as a reporter and as the man who killed Osama Bin Laden will come in handy as the world’s most reliable news site tackles the breaking stories of the day.”

via BRIAN WILLIAMS JOINS WWN | Weekly World News.

Noted atheist reveals his secret religious side

Richard Dawkins has had his “come to Jesus” moment. In an interview with Internet content provider Television Four, Dawkins admitted:

“Science requires a suspension of common sense,” he concluded, “because it’s very far from common sense.”

Since atheists often say that faith is the suspension of common sense, it’s clear that Dawkins truly understands the difficulty of differentiating science from religion.

via Richard Dawkins: Science has evolved faster than human mind’s ability to understand it.