I am shocked, shocked, to find that...

Well, no I'm not.

Guatemala's top court annuls Rios Montt genocide conviction

(I was only surprised he was convicted to begin with.)

The head of Russia's only independent polling agency, Levada Centre, has said it could be forced to close after a warning from officials that it had to register as a "foreign agent" (a Soviet-era label in Russia, suggesting that an organization is a front for spying) because it was involved in political activity (it conducts opinion polls independent of government direction) and received foreign funding (less than 5% of its budget).

a dose of cold water

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interesting choice

French far-right historian, former OAS member, shoots himself in Notre Dame

Because nothing says "I decry my country's declining morals!" like committing a mortal sin. On consecrated ground.

GLBT in the UK

Kirk finds compromise on gay ministers

and

Cameron's gay marriage bill saved by Labour intervention

oh, *sigh*

I need to eat more veg. One of the easiest ways to handle this duty is salads. I stopped on the way home from work and got some groceries, including some diced ham that I figured would go well on a salad. I made a big salad when I got home: shoots, two kinds of lettuce, mushrooms, blue cheese, sun-dried tomatoes. And ham.

Only, after I'd added it on and poured some dressing over it all, I looked at the package again.

Not ham. Bacon.

Diced Italian bacon (pancetta). With no indication anywhere that it was, you know, cooked.

To the Interwebs! Looked up the product. No positive affirmation, but a page reviewing this and several other brands of pancetta started off with cooking all of them.

*sigh* Into the bin goes my big, lovely salad. Start over. We'll try frying up the pancetta with an egg or two in the morning, chuck it on some toast...

However, I will say, it really does pay to buy real lettuce, rather than the sad stuff in bags. A bit more bother to wash it and clean it, but I'm just finishing off two heads of lettuce that I bought... it must be two weeks ago. And they're grand. The sad bagged lettuce generally rots within 2-3 days of bringing it home.

Oh, and apparently the power went out during the day (necessitating half an hour's arguing with the Roku box to get it to work again--planned obsolescence, I think.). Power drains already? It was over 90* this afternoon, but...

oh, here we go...

When I got home at 7 pm: outside 80*F, inside 83*F.

Now (10.30 pm): outside: 73*F, inside 82*F.

All the windows open, fans going.

Summer is coming... (kind of like "winter is coming" but nastier, much nastier).