Current Events

I don’t have much to do today while I wait for Spring Break to begin.  Two of my classes were canceled, leaving me with a six hour gap in the middle of the day.  I bought a video game yesterday, but now I’ve already beaten it.  I don’t have homework, and my stuff is packed and ready to go home.

I guess that leaves current events to talk about.  Did anyone else notice the tsunami warning on Google’s homepage?  I thought that was cool, although only something that has a few hours’ warning like a tsunami would make it very effective.  In the next few days, we’ll have to see how many people the Google warning helped out.  Almost overlooked in the aftermath of the Japan earthquake was a smaller one in China.

Also in the news, France became the first country to publicly recognize the Libyan National Transitional Council as the true government of Libya.  The International Criminal Court believes there might have been as many as 10,000 casualties, something that does not sit well with the UN.  Muammar Gaddafi might be living on borrowed time.

Wisconsin recently passed a law that had all kinds of people protesting.  Most news sources seemed content to report on the protests, not the facts of what the law actually did, so I’m in the dark as to what’s going on.  As far as I have been able to determine, it took some power away from labor unions.

Oh, and oil is back below $100 per barrel.

Spring Break: Engage

-Mason Moyer